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"Water Works: An Aquatic History of Milwaukee" is a production of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Department of History and the Milwaukee County Historical Society. In its first season, the show explored the the effects of the 1918 influenza pandemic and the current COVID-19 pandemic on Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In this second season, the show tells the aquatic history of Milwaukee.
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Introducing TosaTalks, a Wauwatosa based podcast that celebrates the city, culture, cuisine, places, people and reviews around Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. Covering topics around Tosa’s 13.25 square miles of homes, restaurants, events, festivals, services, schools, tech & health care centers and more. Tosa Talks will keep you in touch with the heartbeat of town in the heart of Milwaukee County. #TosaTalks
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Though we can tell a history of Milwaukee's environmental movement, the effort to clean up and preserve our waters is also a story of the present. In this episode of Water Works, our season's finale, historian Jonathon Stuever tells the story of Milwaukee's river keepers. Water Works is a production of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Departme…
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As we've seen, the history of Milwaukee's relationship with water has been in many ways defined by the damage Milwaukeeans have done to its rivers, lakes, and streams. In this episode of Water Works, we begin to focus on Milwaukee's concerted efforts to clean up the messes it has made by charting the history of our environmental movement. Water Wor…
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Milwaukee is widely known for its ample public beach space. But the lakefront was not always this accessible. In this episode of Water Works, produce Marisa Camacho explores how Milwaukee's abundance of blue spaces is in many ways a legacy of the Socialist Party's rise in the early 1900s. Water Works is a production of the University of Wisconsin-M…
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Do you know where the water you drink comes from? And do you know where it goes when it flows down the drain? Well, on this episode of Water Works we not only explain how Milwaukee's water infrastructure works, we also explain how it came to be. For more information about the show, including photographs and documents from the era, check out https:/…
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The Lady Elgin often has an outsized presence in Milwaukee's maritime history. The boat's fateful voyage in 1860 took place in the midst of several local and national conflicts, while the ship's wreckage remains a destination for divers to this day. On this episode of Water Works we parse fact from fiction in the sinking of the Lady Elgin, and ask …
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Milwaukee is a city born of conflict. Though, it might not be the conflict you'd expect. The city's charter took shape over a fight over bridges, and the result of this fight is still visible on any map of Milwaukee today. Today's show is produced by public history student Oscar Harding. For more information about the show, including photographs an…
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Last episode on Water Works, we looked at the ways Milwaukee's first peoples articulated their deep admiration for the waters of the area through the effigy mounds they constructed in the time before European contact. This episode, we explore how Wisconsin's native communities sought to conserve and preserve their relationship with water in the era…
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The first peoples who called the land we call Milwaukee home recognized the centrality of water to the region. Beyond relying on the rivers and lakes to survive, the area's Indigenous communities also revered water. In this episode of Water Works, public historian David Zeh documents how effigy mounds built throughout Milwaukee and Wisconsin reveal…
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A preview of the new season of a podcast from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Department of History and the Milwaukee County Historical Society. Last season looked at the 1918-1919 Influenza outbreak in Milwaukee, and asked what that history could teach us about navigating the coronavirus pandemic today. This season we look at Milwaukee's u…
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By the end of the epidemic, the United States had lost 0.6% of the population to the Spanish Flu, with around 675,000 deaths. Yet Milwaukee suffered a relatively low death rate. In 1918, Milwaukee was the thirteenth largest city in the US and one of the nation’s most densely populated cities. Perhaps Milwaukee’s response can account for some of thi…
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Milwaukee's success at handling the influenza pandemic did not mean the going was easy. For the city's bars and restaurants, shut down orders and consumer fear made business difficult. On this week's episode of The Healthiest City, we explore how Milwaukee's entertainment and retail establishments navigated the influenza pandemic, and consider what…
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While pandemics can seem to disrupt every facet of our daily lives, they are, at their core, medical crises. This week on The Healthiest City we talk about how doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals face these challenges. We open by talking with an ICU nurse in Milwaukee who worked in the unit that treated the first wave of coronavirus…
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When a disease folks then called the "Spanish Flu" was first detected in Milwaukee, the city's public health officials faced a choice not unlike the one we've debated for most of this last year: whether to close the community's schools. This episode of The Healthiest City follows the story of George Ruhland, who was Milwaukee Public Health Commissi…
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As the 1918 influenza pandemic tore its way across the globe, the damage it caused went hand-in-hand with the ongoing combat of World War I. The massive mobilization of troops from around the world provided the perfect conditions for the disease to spread. And with the need to keep sending troops to the trenches, and to keep morale up on the home f…
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In episode two of The Healthiest City podcast, hosts Bailey Green and Roman Lulloff explore how the rise of the Socialist Party in Milwaukee helped build up the city’s public health programs in the years before the 1918 flu pandemic struck. Emil Seidel was elected as the city’s first Socialist mayor in 1910, and the party captured a majority in the…
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In the years after its effective response to the 1918 “Spanish flu” pandemic, Milwaukee became known as “the healthiest city.” But that reputation, and the public health preparedness that made it possible, wasn’t built up overnight: Milwaukee learned how to respond to a dangerous epidemic the hard way. In episode one of The Healthiest City podcast,…
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In the winter of 1918, the city of Milwaukee faced a crisis almost exactly like our own. A highly contagious and deadly virus found its way to the city. This disease was the great influenza pandemic of 1918 and 1919; and like the coronavirus pandemic today it completely upended life in our city. What might we learn about our own moment by looking t…
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Podcast of tonight's Tosa Mural Project that was brought together by the city, tourism dollars and a love of art. Listen up for all the hard work that went into this and some fun quotes by the artists themselves. The North Ave. project cam about as The City of Wauwatosa selected six (seven) artists to create murals this mid July near the intersecti…
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Blessed with great weather and great conversation, it was my honor to visit and record the ladies of the Wauwatosa Historical Society. Join us as we learn about new events shaping up in the community and past events that shaped Wauwatosa to the present day. Listen in at 7406 Hillcrest Drive as we talk with the the executive director and lead histor…
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In this episode we talk with brewers and beer industry professionals ranging from nano breweries like Stock House Brewery, Multi-purpose beverage makers like Vennture, and multi-location brewers like The Fermentorium. Each brewery brings their insight with a big addition of Ray's Growler Gallery sharing stories on their event and female perspective…
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Thanks to Greyhouse Creative Market and Badger Cross Fit for sharing their stories on how their businesses started and why they continue to thrive in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin.
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Introducing Tosa Talks, a Wauwatosa based podcast that celebrates the city, culture, cuisine, places, people and reviews around Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. Covering topics around Tosa’s 13.25 square miles of homes, restaurants, events, festivals, services, schools, tech & health care centers and more. Tosa Talks will keep you in touch with the heartbeat …
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