309 BOOK RELEASE
This beautifully crafted page-turner presents the outsider history of a thriving southern punkhouse where military brats, rocker chefs, queerdoe artists, revivified veterans, a newborn, and a rotating pack of dogs lived nearly cash-free in a filthy and vibrant wonderland they made imperfectly together.
~Anna Joy Springer, author of The Vicious Red Relic, Love
~Anna Joy Springer, author of The Vicious Red Relic, Love
Aaron Cometbus has been publishing the zine Cometbus since 1981. He is the author of many books, including Double Duce and I Wish There Was Something That I Could Quit.
Scott Satterwhite is a historian, educator, and journalist who teaches writing and literature at the University of West Florida. Cometbus and Satterwhite are former residents of the 309 punkhouse. |
Told in personal interviews, this is the collective story of a punk community in an unlikely town and region, a hub of radical counterculture that drew artists and musicians from throughout the conservative South and earned national renown.
The house at 309 6th Avenue has long been a crossroads for punk rock, activism, veganism, and queer culture in Pensacola, a quiet Gulf Coast city at the border of Florida and Alabama. In this book, residents of 309 narrate the colorful and often comical details of communal life in the crowded and dilapidated house over its 30-year existence. Terry Johnson, Ryan “Rymodee” Modee, Gloria Diaz, Skott Cowgill, and others tell of playing in bands including This Bike Is a Pipe Bomb, operating local businesses such as End of the Line Cafe, forming feminist support groups, and creating zines and art. Each voice adds to the picture of a lively community that worked together to provide for their own needs while making a positive, lasting impact on their surrounding area. Together, these participants show that punk is more than music and teenage rebellion. It is about alternatives to standard narratives of living, acceptance for the marginalized in a rapidly changing world, and building a sense of family from the ground up. Including photos by Cynthia Connolly and Mike Brodie, A Punkhouse in the Deep South illuminates many individual lives and creative endeavors that found a home and thrived in one of the oldest continuously inhabited punkhouses in the United States. |
309 ZINE CHALLENGE
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The Zine Challenge was a Success! Over Two Dozen Zines submitted from as far away at California, Arizona, New Mexico, Alabama, NC, and even Pensacola's rival city St. Augustine! Plus many more from Pensacola! More to come, but we wanted to say THANK YOU! You are not losers!
PENSACOLA MUSEUM OF ART: SEAN LINEZO & 309 PUNK PROJECT
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WE ARE NOT A MOVEMENT, WE ARE MOTION ITSELF... PERPETUAL MOTION!!!
AnArchivist | Sean Linezo and The 309 Punk Project Exhibit on view at Pensacola Museum of Art October 1, 2021 - January 3, 2022 OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY, OCT. 22, 2021 @ 6:00PM Using source material from the 309 Archives, AnArchivist transforms linear time into a cyclical dimension with the announcement of a new beginning... while also celebrating the 20th anniversary of the 8-week Zine Challenge of 2001 and the playful/poetic/participatory aesthetic of the Pensacola DIY scene. The reign of the minus is over... long live poetry and positive energy! |