Picturing Milwaukee: The 2013 BLC Field School
  • About
    • What we do
    • Who we are
    • Contact Us
    • Credits
  • Edges
    • Bradford Beach >
      • The Bath House
      • The Tiki Bars
      • Beach Visitors
      • North Point Custard
      • Beach Objects
    • The Bluff >
      • Historic Water Tower
      • North Point Lighthouse
      • Lake Park
      • Bluff Objects
    • Ecology: Bluff and Beach
  • Main Street
    • Places >
      • Sendik's
      • Downer Hardware
      • Mulkern's Garage
      • Coffee Trader
      • Downer Theatre
      • Popcorn Wagon
      • St. Mark's Episcopal Church
      • Downer Garage
    • People >
      • Vince Katter
      • Thea Kovac
      • Michelle Mooney
      • Sal Sendik
      • Susan Willets
      • Margaret Howland
      • Blair Williams
      • Nik Kovac
      • Stephen Wolff
  • Homes
    • Contact >
      • Charles Foote and Laurel Maney's House
      • Joe Libnoch's House
      • Villa Terrace
      • Andy Nunemaker's House
    • Prospect >
      • Christopher Bauer's House
      • Villa Terrace
    • Labor >
      • Ferneding House
      • Kenilworth Place
      • Villa Terrace
    • Craft >
      • Kirsten and Lloyd's House
      • Villa Terrace
      • Angela and George Jacobi's House
  • Institutions
    • Aegis of Memory
    • Sopra Mare
    • Speaking in Detail
    • Arthur Smith
  • Forum
    • On Stewardship
    • On Community Involvement
    • On Homes
    • Analysis
    • Community Feedback and Sustainability
  • Traces
    • Postal Past
    • Breath of Fresh Air
  • Documentaries
  • Home
The field school project focuses on integrating local knowledge with expert ways of reading the city and seeks to create a critically informed citizenry who may serve as advocates and stewards of our urban built heritage. Recounting stories of everyday places where we live and work can spur active engagement with others who share these spaces with us, revive interest in our built environment and encourage stewardship of our patrimony. The need for collaborative storytelling to create a public culture takes on a sense of urgency when established traditions and ways of life disappear and new ones emerge. But merely telling stories is not enough in these cases - rather citizens should be inspired to participate and contribute in a collective retelling of stories thereby producing a public discourse that is invested and engaged. 

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During the field school we collected oral histories from many residents. These were hour-long informal interviews where individuals spoke to us about their values, identity, their sense of community, stewardship and their life histories. Here is a list of people whose oral histories have become part of the BLC field school archives:

Amine and Kristen Benbazza
Andy Nunemaker
Angela and George Jacobi
Arthur Smith
Barbara Brown Lee
Barbara and Robert Elsner
Beth Chapman
Blair Williams
Chris Bauer
Christine Anderson 
Dan Welk
Dawn McCarthy
Delphine Cannon
Dennis Buettner
Donna Neal
Gail Mosser
Gregory Clerlik

Jane Shero
John Schmidt
John Scripp
Jared Salisbury
Joe McLean
Joe Libnoch
John at True Value
John Sterr
Lisa Sadagopan
Lloyd Dickinson
Laurel Maney
Lynn Hartwig
Margaret Howland
Mark Kuehn
Mark Heffron
Michael Connor
Michelle Mooney
Nik Kovac
Pat Van Alyea
Randy Bryant
“Ringo” Mike White
Sal Sendik
Steve Wolf
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