Category: overview
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wallace short documentary
The Wallace documentary is now available for free online! You can watch all 17 minutes of it where it is currently hosted at Film Shortage (or below)! Film Description: In the tiny mining town of Wallace, Idaho, old west brothels were open and tolerated up until the year of 1991. The short documentary, Wallace, takes…
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wallace film premiere
I helped make a documentary called Wallace, and it just made its world premiere at the Sun Valley Film Festival. Now, we’re bringing the short film back to its hometown on the last Friday & Saturday of April. Where: The Sixth Street Melodrama & Theater in Wallace, IdahoDates and Times: April 26th and 27th, with showings…
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race and the houses
Were there ever any women of color who worked there [in the brothels]? You know, for guys who wanted someone a little more, you know, like, ‘exotic’ or ‘spicy?’ Kayla, the events coordinator for Auntie’s Bookstore in Spokane, asked me this question after my reading last week. She trailed off toward the end of her question,…
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*buy my book here!*
It’s finally here! My book, Selling Sex in the Silver Valley: A Business Doing Pleasure, is now available! Order a personalized, signed copy for $25.00. Thank you for supporting my work!
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a reminder, on the 24th anniversary of the fbi raid
…what you really ought to do is get up there and get to know these folks. Get to know why they do what they do. Get to know the history of the community. Get to know why they have to have poker machines in their bars to survive. You know I said, ‘It’s a different…
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overview: a century of brothels in wallace, idaho
A New York Times article appearing during the 1973 [temporary] shutdown confuses some things, but offers an example of the high degree of acceptance the community had toward the madams and houses, and illustrates how wide Wallace’s reputation had spread, noting that a bartender at Albiâs had fielded 14 long-distance phone calls that day to…
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the madam next door
This past Monday I drove to Charlottesville to be interviewed for the nationally-distributed public radio show With Good Reason. It was interesting—and a little weird—to do what the producer Kelley called “performing a conversation.” You can listen to the show here (I’m the first 16 minutes or so): [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/194578165″ params=”color=79a4d1&show_artwork=false” width=”100%” height=’166′ iframe=”true” /] And here is a transcript featuring my…
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locations of wallace brothels 1891-1991: podcast episode, maps, and transcript
“I don’t remember at all how I eventually found out that this was a thriving red-light district and had steady business, but when it was payday at the mines the place was really jumping.”
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about the shoshone county sheriff’s office files
“Definitely a screwball.” — Shoshone County Sheriff’s Office file #474 “Do not let Betty return until she understands she is going to have to behave herself.” — SCSO file #546 One of the items on my research to-do list: type up my hand-written research notes. Most of the work I did over the summer already made…