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They Did It Their Way: Oregon Pioneers Who Did Shit Different (11 October 2016)

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Stumptown Stories presents They Did It Their Way: Oregon Pioneers Who Did Shit Different on Tuesday, October 11, 2016 at Jack London bar (basement of the Rialto, SW 4th and Alder).

Culinary historian Heather Arndt Anderson will talk about the Quaker father of Oregon’s fruit orchards–and his freaky Honduran sex cult!

Crime historian JB Fisher will talk about Portland’s pioneering female journalist Ann Sullivan, who covered vice raids, prison riots, sensational murders, and all manner of zany stories in mid-late Twentieth century Portland.”

Stumptown Stories, batshit crazy stories from the murkiest, weirdest, and nuttiest corners of Portland history, takes place the second Tuesday of the month at the Jack London. The Rialto is closing in December, so this is the second-to-last Stumptown Stories at the Rialto – Don’t miss it!

Admission is free. Doors open at 7:00 PM, 21 and over only.

Stumptown Stories: The Food and Drug Extravaganza (13 September 2016)

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Stumptown Stories at the Jack: The Food and Drug Extravaganza

Stumptown Stories presents The Food and Drug Extravaganza on Tuesday, September 13, 2016 at Jack London bar (basement of the Rialto, SW 4th and Alder).

Join Heather Arndt Anderson and Finn J D John of the Stumptown Stories troupe for a night of eating and drinking safe, delicious food and beverages, while talking about the bad old days and their unsafe, impure (but still delicious!) food and drugs.

The appearance of modern markets across America, with their brightly lit aisles, sparkling glass cases and fresh foods, is in no small part thanks to the efforts of one Portland woman more than a century ago: Lilian Tingle. Heather will have the full story.

Then Finn will talk about the patent-medicine swindlers of the 1890s to 1910s — the fellows who rolled into town in a wagon with a fiddle and hawked tapeworm eggs and hardcore opiates that would cure the everlasting hell out of whatever was bothering you. This will be topped off with a story of a swindler from Albany whose erectile-dysfunction cure was so scammy, it got him prosecuted by the American Medical Association. (We’re saving this part for last, because you’re going to want to have a few drinks on board before you hear how this “cure” worked.)

Stumptown Stories, batshit crazy stories from the murkiest, weirdest, and nuttiest corners of Portland history, takes place the second Tuesday of every month at the Jack London.

Admission is free. Doors open at 7:00 PM, 21 and over only.

Stumptown Stories Presents: Lost Treasures of Oregon (16 August 2016)

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Stumptown Stories presents Lost Treasures of Oregon on Tuesday, August 16, 2016 at Jack London bar (basement of the Rialto, SW 4th and Alder).

JB Fisher (co-author of Portland on the Take) will spin talks of the Neahkahine Mountain treasure, lost Spanish gold that many have searched for, but none have found.

Joe Streckert (host of Interesting Times) will lead a (stationary) search for a time capsule laid by Theodore Roosevelt that was supposed to be opened in 2003, but has never been found.

Stumptown Stories, batshit crazy stories from the murkiest, weirdest, and nuttiest corners of Portland history, takes place the second Tuesday of every month [except we’re doing the 3rd Tuesday this month] at the Jack London.

Admission is free. Doors open at 7:00 PM, 21 and over only.

Stumptown Stories Presents: Law and Disorder (12 July 2016)

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Stumptown Stories presents Law and Disorder on Tuesday, July 12, 2016 at Jack London bar (basement of the Rialto, SW 4th and Alder).

Joe Streckert (Interesting Times) is talking about Robertson v Baldwin, a US Supreme Court case out of Oregon carved out an exception to the 13th emendment, which banned slavery. When it came to maritime labor, sailors could still be forced to work against their will, despite what the Constitution said.

Finn JD John (Offbeat Oregon History and author of Wicked Portland) will get into a rogue’s gallery of the members of America’s most exclusive club: The FBI’s Most Wanted list. Featuring a gangster, a murderer, and the Sandy Chief of Police.

Stumptown Stories, batshit crazy stories from the murkiest, weirdest, and nuttiest corners of Portland history, takes place the second Tuesday of every month at the Jack London.

Admission is free. Doors open at 7:00 PM, 21 and over only.