Description
In 1984, Nashville’s state representative Bill Boner (real name) wanted to learn more about the homeless population in Nashville; how did they get there? what trials and tribulations do they experience? how do they survive? Potentially an admirable goal! Except Boner decided the best way to ascertain that information was to go undercover and live amongst the unhoused for a weekend. He went as far as to give himself a pseudoynm; “Hoot Jackson.”
The experience got him the press he desired and, eventually, he became mayor of Nashville. Learn more about this escapade from these two podcast episodes.
– “Music City Tales from the 1980s: Meet Hoot Jackson“
– “Music City Tales from the 1980s: Lower Broad and the Ascendance of the High Class Drunk“
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Printed on Gildan 64000 tees. Boxy but feels good.
