After being cooped up with your stuff through yet another Wisconsin winter, you might be in the mood to kick some of it to the curb. Nicole Gruter is a […]
Radio Chipstone: Mona Webb, Goddess of Willy Street
Mona Boulware Webb was born in Houston in 1914 as Nevelle Ruth Boyce. She studied to be a nurse, married, and started a family. However, the murder of Emmett Till, […]
Radio Chipstone: Madison’s Early African American Families, Part...
There are a number of things you should know about Muriel Simms. She was born and raised in Madison. She is an Adjunct Faculty member at Edgewood College and she […]
Radio Chipstone: Madison’s Early African American Families, Part...
In 1840 there were less than 400 African Americans living in Madison. We know some arrived as slaves to fur trappers, others came to work in the mines. In 1850, […]
Radio Chipstone: The Dave Project
Dave the Potter was an artisan enslaved in South Carolina from his birth in 1801 until the end of the Civil War. His impressive body of work includes 27 stoneware […]
Radio Chipstone: The Wheatley Table
When we consider the symbols of American Freedom a few come to mind like the American Flag, baseball, and the Statue of Liberty. However, there are other objects which hold […]