An Evening with Aaron Cometbus & Scott Satterwhite

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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 where they started bands, operated local businesses, formed feminist support groups, and created 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.

Aaron Cometbus is a writer, songwriter, artist, and oral historian who published the fanzine Cometbus for forty years. His most recent book, Let’s Talk About the Mainstream, is fresh off the press.

Scott Satterwhite is a writer and educator. His work has been published in academic journals, books, newspapers, and his own fanzine, Mylxine. Satterwhite is the co-founder of Open Books Pr*son Book Project, 309 Punk Project, and teaches English at the University of West Florida.

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