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Share your story with PBS Wisconsin at a Madison community story sharing event
March 10, 2025 Leave a Comment
PBS Wisconsin will host six Madison community story sharing sessions for the latest installment in the Wisconsin Hometown Stories series, scheduled to air in 2027.
At each community story sharing session, the documentary’s producers and other station representatives will host a conversation with attendees to learn more about the people and places that tell Madison’s unique history. These sessions will help identify critical stories and inform the documentary’s development.
Event details
Attendees will be invited to share their stories, or stories they know about Madison, with the gathered group.
No RSVP is required. Seating is limited. For questions or to request accommodations, please call 608-265-5037.
Please note, this is a series of the same event. Individuals do not need to attend more than one session.
Event Dates and locations
Tuesday, April 1
Madison College Goodman South Campus, Community Room
2429 Perry St., Madison
10:30 a.m.-noon
6-7:30 p.m.
Thursday, April 3
Bayview Community Center, First Floor Classroom
103 La Mariposa Ln., Madison
10:30 a.m.-noon
6-7:30 p.m.*
*Free child care will be available for the evening session on April 3.
Monday, April 7
Vera Court Neighborhood Center, Multipurpose Room
614 Vera Ct., Madison
10:30 a.m.-noon
6-7:30 p.m.
Can’t make it to a session? You can also share your story with us at: pbswisconsin.org/madison-stories. The form is available in English, Spanish and Hmong.
Wisconsin Hometown Stories: Madison is a partnership of PBS Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Historical Society. Learn more at pbswisconsin.org/hometownstories.
Featured image courtesy of the Wisconsin Historical Society Image ID: 3160.
Margie S Yankowski says:
I have lived in the “Lost City” of Madison for 25 years and love to hear the stories about how this neighborhood came to be. It was a development ahead of its time – small houses, central parks, public transit to the key places of the city, but when they started building this community they realized they were building on marsh land and it couldn’t support homes – they were sinking, so they donated the land, most of which became the UW arboretum. I live on the edge of the arb, but it is still technically marsh land. I went to ta talk a few years ago about the history of the development – it was fascinating. I can look up the speaker for you if aren’t already talking to someone about how the arb and the lost city came to be.
Tara Lovdahl says:
Thank you so much for sharing, Margie! Feel free to share the name of the speaker!
Frances steele says:
Many of the elementary schools in Madison have their own song. For example, kids who attend Van Hise Elementary are taught a song about Charles Van Hise. Could be interesting to explore how Madison’s history is being kept alive through the songs we are teaching our kids at school.
Tara Lovdahl says:
Thank you, Frances!
Diane Amato says:
In 2020 I published a book about the Greenbush between 1942-1946 called All The News From Home. I have shared readings a few times with Wisconsin Public Libraries and the Neighborhood House in Madison. I am going to be in Madison 4/1-7 and would love to read a few excepts from my book about the old neighborhood at one of your events.
Tara Lovdahl says:
Hi Diane,
We would love to have you join us! Looking forward to it.
Michael Bruno says:
Love to share stories of my family from The Bush