Radio Chipstone:
It’s a Material World

Once you seriously consider the objects you use to fill your emotional and functional needs, you will never see those things the same way ever again. From delightfully intriguing to dangerously obsessive, objects affect our daily lives. They creep into our subconscious. They say volumes about who we are or wish to be, without uttering a single word.

—Gianofer Fields

Early African-American Communities Of Madison

December 8, 2018


Alpha Omega Phi committee of Madison, Wis., from Settlin': Stories of Madison's Early African-American Families WHI ID#80543 In part one of this interview, contributor Gianofer fields asks Simms to set the scene. Where did African-Americans live and what did those communities look like?