Drunken Telegraph

"Drunken Telegraph is a storytelling series that borrows its name from a travel piece novelist Rudyard Kipling wrote about debauchery he witnessed in Tacoma in 1889. “The crude boarded pavements of the main streets rumbled under the heels of hundreds of furious men all actively engaged in hunting drinks,” he wrote, a few years before “The Jungle Book.” “Overhead the drunken telegraph, telephone and electric-light wires tangled on tottering posts whose butts were half whittled through by the knife of the loafer.”

But the Drunken Telegraph series is not so much about perpetuating Tacoma’s still rowdy reputation as it is about empowering locals to tell their personal tales of transformation publicly."

The full Drunken Telegraph story as written up in "The Tacoma Weekly" can be found here:
http://www.tacomaweekly.com/citylife/view/tell-your-story-of-transformation-at-drunken-telegraph/ Hide full description

"Drunken Telegraph is a storytelling series that borrows its name from a travel piece novelist Rudyard Kipling wrote about debauchery he witnessed in Tacoma in 1889. “The crude boarded pavements of the main streets rumbled under the heels of hundreds of furious men all actively engaged in hunting drinks,” he wrote, a few years before “The Jungle Book.” “Overhead the drunken telegraph, telephone and electric-light wires tangled on tottering posts whose butts were half whittled through by the knife of the loafer.” But the Drunken Telegraph series is not so much about perpetuating Tacoma’s still rowdy reputation as it is about empowering locals to tell their personal tales of transformation publicly." The full Drunken Telegraph story as written up in "The Tacoma Weekly" can be found... Show full description