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		<title>in case you missed it&#8230; kxly&#8217;s news story and a book review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jun 2017 17:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Melissa Luck&#8217;s four minute story about the book and the town broadcast on the channel four evening news last Friday. Before the interview, I was a little worried that the show would inevitably go the direction of either romanticizing or sensationalizing sex work in Wallace. But talking with the journalist/producer turned out to be easier [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2017 16:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[KXLY TV (channel 4) news came over from Spokane to chat with me about the project. The show will broadcast tonight between 6:00-7:00 pm&#8230; Here&#8217;s the teaser: I&#8217;ll post the online version of that interview when it goes up, too. You can also watch KXLY&#8217;s Facebook video preview here: Below is an interview I did with [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8220;death reveals masquerade&#8221; (update, search terms, and random bonus archival item)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heather Branstetter]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2015 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a while since I posted anything. I&#8217;ve hustling on the professor side of my life (lots of student papers at the end of last semester, class planning for the beginnings of this semester, some academic writing deadlines, etc.), but one of my personal commitments for the year is to write here more regularly. I&#8217;m going to aim [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>work plan summer 2015</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heather Branstetter]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2014 04:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today, if you take a trip into the mountains of northern Idaho and drop into the geographically isolated valley that once produced more silver than any place on the planet, you will find the town of Wallace. If you linger in this town, which is home to fewer than 1,000 people and subsisting through continued mining operations and tourism, you might find yourself drawn to the 'Oasis Bordello Museum,â€ where you can tour one of the townâ€™s historic brothels. This voyeuristic journey into the not-so-distant past will take you up a long narrow staircase, past an old jukebox, down a dark hallway, and into rooms preserved since the Oasisâ€™s last working girls abandoned town in the late 1980s. The women, warned that the FBI would be coming, likely planned to retrieve their belongings later. But the federal agents continued to stick around instead, launching a two-year undercover investigation, so the women moved on permanently. Occasionally, some of the women now return to take the tour, pausing to share their experiences with the museum proprietor and perhaps grab a five-dollar bill left beneath the Pegasus figurine on a bedside stand. Or so the story goesâ€¦

For more than a century, Wallaceâ€™s underground economy, built on illegal gambling and old-West-style brothels, functioned much as it had during the early mining camp days before Idaho officially became a state. The townâ€™s vice district survived Progressive era reform, a national social hygiene crusade waged by the War Department during World War I, the economic depression of the 1930s, and went on to do booming business during World War II. According to local historian John Amonson, by the mid-1950s the town had settled into a comfortable holding pattern: residents would elect only government leaders who would allow the continued functioning of the prostitution industry, even driving away the few pastors or priests who dared advocate for reform.

According to Wallace residents and former maids for the houses, the regulated presence of women available 'served a community needâ€ when they made themselves available to so-called tramp miners, semi-nomadic laborers who moved from one mining community to another. By performing quick sessions in tiny rooms located on second floors in a designated part of town, these women (often semi-nomadic themselves) supposedly kept the streets safe for other women at night. They brought money into the community by attracting truckers and college kids from around the region and the madams gave back generously. Wallaceâ€™s brothels were even internationally known, drawing visitors from Canada and recognition in London. Aside from a brief shutdown in 1973, when state government officials attempted to intervene, Wallaceâ€™s brothels were illegal yet embraced, a famous open secret. The final house, known as the U&#38;I Rooms, finally closed its doors in 1991, just weeks before 150 FBI agents raided the area in 'the biggest single Federal law-enforcement raid ever in the Rocky Mountain region,â€ according to New York Times columnist Timothy Egan. That year, as its last figurative red light ceased operations, the town buried the last literal red light on I-90 and shifted from selling sex to selling the past, re-branding itself as 'Historic Wallace.â€]]></description>
		
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