The Lands We Share

If I were to choose a keyword that captured the essence of the “The Lands We Share” exhibition, it would be conversations. As part of a diverse, state-of-the-art public history project, the traveling exhibition grew out of an oral history project, included recorded oral histories and other sound sources, and connected forward and backward to community meals and conversations. What were these conversations about? They began with the Wisconsin farm and the cultural, racial, and ethnic identities of farmers, and they spiraled out from there to such topics as land and housing loss; refugees, migrants, and resettlement; sustainability and climate change; community belonging and mutual aid; immigration laws and family separations; rural labor shortages; and the family farm in the era of corporate farming. Through this exhibition and its many conversations, “The Lands We Share” redefined the history of Wisconsin farming; the project did not so much address a community as call a new community into being

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