After spending some months in negotiation last year, the Special Collections Department of the University of Miami Otto G. Richter Library has acquired an archive of my old papers, writings, and artwork mostly representing the years 1990-1997 in which I lived and wrote in Miami.

The library now owns and will make available to the public ten boxes of my old materials that include such rarities as the cut-and-paste originals for the first four issues of SCAM zine, hundreds of originals for flyers I made for local punk shows and activist events, a trove of handmade maps of train yards around the country, old stencils, a hitchhiking sign, audio and video recordings of countless local punk rock bands from that era, my notebooks, personal correspondence with writers and artists and zine editors from around the country, and some punk rock artifacts like a stolen cop radio and, of course, every zine editor’s old friend, the Kinko’s copy counter.

The library is still figuring out how to display the items and is considering plans to digitize some of the writing in the collection. I will post more details here as I get them. But if you are in Miami, I imagine you can just go there and ask to see a box!

On February 16 at 6:30, I will appear at University of Miami Library to announce the acquisition and to discuss the role of archives in radical movements. I am honored to appear along with Max Rameau, the founder of Take Back The Land, whose papers were recently acquired by the library as well.

Read more about the event and archive here

http://library.miami.edu/uml/news/2011/01/24/archiving-the-fringe-documenting-countercultural-activism-in-miami/

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