PLEASE NOTE: You can receive all publications “free” when you join the club as a Dill Pickler!
Northwest Passage:
50 Years of Independent Music from the Rose City
Northwest Passage is an 88-page book and audio CD highlighting the history of Portland’s burgeoning independent music scene. Through oral history, essays and photos, the publication documents the organization’s successful music lecture series, with contributions from: The Dill Pickle Club, Mississippi Records, Oregon Historical Musical Society, PDX Pop Now!, Joe Kregal, Ural Thomas, Valerie Brown, Fred & Toody Cole, Vanessa Renwick & Erin Yanke, Calvin Johnson and Cool Nutz. $12
Oregon History Comics
Ten stories about Portland’s history. Ten Portland-based illustrators. Ten excellent history comics! Over the next year, Portland Mercury reporter Sarah Mirk and the Dill Pickle Club will publish Oregon History Comics: 10 short comic books telling little-known stories from our state and city’s history. The series will present illuminating, marginalized and quirky accounts of local history in an accessible medium, engaging history fans and the public at large in learning about the place in which we live. (Note: these comics are not included w/ membership).
Comic #2 – The Life and Death of the X-Ray Cafe – John Isaacson $3
Brains, Brilliancy, Bohemia: Art & Politics in Jazz-Age Chicago
Presenting photos and photocopies from Chicago’s ill-forgotten radical nightclub, The Dill Pickle Club, hobo gatherings and 1910s-20s ephemera, Brains, Brilliancy, Bohemia provides a timely look at the origin of American counterculture and working class art leading up to the Great Depression. New edition also includes a DVD of the short film, The More Things Stay The Same, a documentary on the life and world of hobo king and prostitute physician, Dr. Ben Reitman. $13
Art for the Millions: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA
Art for the Millions is an audio CD and 28-page guided tour of Portland public works projects of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), a federally-funded program that provided relief to millions of idle workers during the height of the Great Depression. The audio program includes interviews with David Millholand, Ginny Allen, Nina Olsson, Mark Humpal and Margaret Bullock, while the guidebook details over nine WPA sites in the Portland metro area. Also included is the essay “A Look Back and a Step Forward: The Relevance of the WPA Today,” and a list of WPA resources. $8