The Secret History of Ritual America with Adam Parfrey
This Friday at Elliot Bay Books on Capitol Hill, Feral House publisher Adam Parfrey will be present to talk and show images from his new book, Ritual America: Secret Brotherhoods and Their Influence on American Society: A Visual Guide
Friday, May 25, 2012 7:00pm -free
From the Elliot Bay website-
“Based in Port Townsend, Feral House and Process Media are two of the most adventurous, often surprising publishers in the U.S., with a bent for revealing the otherwise obscured, undisclosed or under-documented. Adam Parfrey, himself a writer but also the publisher of both these presses, is here this evening to talk and show images from his own new book, Ritual America: Secret Brotherhoods and Their Influence on American Society: A Visual Guide (Feral House) co-authored with Craig Heimbichner. This gives context and perspective, starting with its documenting the preponderance of American males who belonged to fraternal orders as recently as five or six decades ago. Many still do, of course, but the ratio was once as high as a third. From that, to the place of things today are written and portrayed in illuminating ways.”