Quartedeck Story Pub is a mutlimedia-supported speaker series, hosted by Steve Edmiston. In 2022, all four Story Pub events (including an Open Mic night) sold out. Story Pub topics included “The Crisis” (about the local Nike Ajax Missile site during the Cuban Missile Crisis); “The Body on the Beach” (a true 1933 local homicide and the national scandal that followed); and “The Birthplace of the Men in Black” (the story of Washington State’s launch of the iconic men in black in 1947).

Story Pub is a spinoff of a 4Culture grant project, “Tales of Adventure from Old Military Road.” The stories happened along Washington’s Military Road, extending geographically from Fort Steilacoom, north into Federal Way, Kent, SeaTac, and Tukwila. The stories ranged in time over one hundred years, and touched upom the causes and consequences of the Northwest’s Indian Wars of the late 1850s, through the Cold War standoffs of the 1960s. The social ills and issues addressed include all manner of bigotry; civic activism; political villainy; attacks on civil rights and liberties; decision points between war and peace; and fear of disease and contagion. There was one unifying theme in these stories from along the Road.

Courage.

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