Stumptown Stories

11/08/2022

Stumptown Stories’ own JB Fisherand Kick Ass Oregon History are making a movie! Check out the teaser trailer and tell yer friends!

Ancient Mariner Pictures and Secrets of the Mysteries presents "QUEST FOR THE NEAHKAHNIE TREASURE" - A film by Tony Altamirano, Doug Kenck-Crispin and JB Fis...

09/16/2018

Stumptown Stories fans: check out Portland Unsolved. YouTube mini-documentaries chronicling 150 years of forgotten Portland history.

Join historians JB Fisher and JD Chandler as they discuss some of Portland, Oregon’s strangest and most intriguing cold criminal cases from the past 150 year...

11/29/2016

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10/12/2016

Tonight JB Fisher presented on Ann Sullivan -- the second in our new series, Heather Arndt Anderson Presents: Bad Bi***es in Portland History

07/14/2016

Joe's talk from Tuesday is now available as an episode of his podcast Interesting Times, a great show that you should like, listen to, and subscribe to on iTunes.

In 1897 the US Supreme Court carved out an exception the 13th Amendment, which bans slavery and involuntary servitude. Robertson v. Baldwin held that merchant

06/28/2016

From one of the very first nights of Stumptown Stories when we had graphic artist Jim Hill do illustrations alongside a lecture about Old Town Chinatown. (Posted by Terry Robinett)

05/12/2016

If you didn't get a chance to see Joe's talk about Claymation (or if you did and you just can't get enough of his sexy voice) it's now available as an episode of his podcast Interesting Times.

Claymation was a dominant force in American popular culture during the late 1980s, which characters such as the California Raisins and the Noid achieving a sort

05/11/2016

Thanks everyone for coming out last night! And even if you didn't, here's a list of bands and a playlist to go along with my early 90s Portland rock talk.

Early 90s (with important earlier stuff)

The Wipers--When It's Over
Neo Boys--Running in the Shadows
Dharma Bums--Good Advice
Poison Idea--Just To Get Away
Na**lm Beach--Potential Su***de
Dead Moon--Dead Moon Night
Hazel--Dayglo*
New Bad Things--Concrete*
Roger Nusic--Can I Come In and See You?*
Big Daddy Meat Straw--Fifteen*
Kurtz Project--Just Keep Walking
Crackerbash--Bandages
Heatmiser--Blackout
Calamity Jane--Mean Song
The Spinanes--Spitfire
Sprinkler--Flood
Sone--David's Sling
Pond--Agatha
Thirty Ought Six--Huck
Bugskull--Mind Phaser

*played at my talk

Enjoy and feel free to add more!

04/27/2016

Ok guys! The May installment of Stumptown Stories is coming up. We're calling this one "The Dream of the 90s in Rock and Clay." JB Fisher will be talking about the ROCK (of the local alternative variety) and Joe Streckert will be talking about the CLAY (of the Will Vinton variety). Tues. May 10th at Jack London Bar. Doors at 7 pm. Free. Come out and have a good time with us!

03/10/2016

For those of you who missed the event on Tuesday, Joe's talk about Oregon Trail is available as part of his podcast Interesting Times. Enjoy the starvation and dysentery!

Created in 1971 by student teacher Don Rawitsch, Oregon Trail is easily the most successful educational video game of all time.

03/03/2016

If you don't Paint Your Wagon, how on earth will it last? Good Wagon Paint Saves Wagons!
Hope you can join us on Tuesday night (7:00pm) at The Jack London Bar for Pixelate Your Wagon! Joe Streckert and Doug Kenck-Crispin and a whhhooollleeee wagon load of Oregon pioneer-type-peoples (or at least the pixelated representation of them!) The show is free!
(Athena Press- Umatilla, 5/24/1907)

02/12/2016

Oh my goodness...
March 8th. The Jack London Bar.