From February 1 to April 19, the Chazen Museum of Art will host “Speaking of Book Arts: Oral Histories from UW-Madison.” As an interactive, all ages-friendly, companion to the oral history exhibit, the Museum will also offer a bookish Art-Spin, featuring practitioners from the Bone Folders Guild. Adrienne Rich is the Assistant Curator for […]
Lands We Share: Farming, History, and Place in Wisconsin
Today on the show, we learn about The Lands We Share traveling exhibit, which highlights six diverse family and community farming projects in Wisconsin: Allenville Farms, Oneida Nation Farms, Dettmann Dairy Farms, Vang C&C Farm, Metcalfe Park Community Gardens, and Walker Square Farmers Market. Our guests are Stephanie Hoff, a student who worked on the […]
Muriel Simms’ deeply interwoven oral histories
If you want to understand the role that race has played in Madison’s past and present, Settlin’: Stories Of Madison’s Early African American Families is an essential read. Its author, educator and Edgewood College faculty member Muriel Simms, began interviewing people for the book in the early 2000s, focusing on people who descended from African […]
Madison’s Living History
History doesn’t live only in dusty tomes, bureaucratic archives and curated antiques. It also lives in the minds and memories of those who were there. Madison’s Living History Project, sponsored by the Madison Public Library, tries to find long-time Madison residents, get them in a conversation about where they came from, and where they’ve been, […]
A more complete story
When you think of “historic preservation,” you probably think a lot about buildings. That’s certainly how people in charge of local historic preservation efforts in Madison have tended to think about it for many years. The people behind a new project at the city of Madison are hoping to change that, making historic preservation more […]
