University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries Magazine 2018 Fall Libraries Magazine | Page 34

The Lands We Share: Traveling Exhibit Gives
a Voice to the Rich History and Diversity of
Wisconsin’s Farmers
By Ken Virden
34 | LIBRARIES Fall 2018
T
he Lands We Share (LWS) Tour is an
initiative of the Wisconsin Farms Oral
History Project, a collaboration of four UW
campuses that focuses on the intersection
of farming, land, race, and ethnicity in
Wisconsin. The initiative involves a traveling
interactive exhibition that features six diverse
farm sites in urban and rural Wisconsin, and
invites visitors to share stories, opinions,
and historical materials. The tour features
community conversations in each town,
where publicly–generate