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INDEX: <br /><br />00:41—MEMORIES OF CHILDREN ON TENNEY BEACH <br /><br />1:45—MEMORIES OF CHILDREN LEARNING TO ICE SKATE ON TENNY LAGOON<br /><br />2:44–CHILDREN KAYAKING DURING STORMS <br /><br />[START OF RECORDING]<br /><br />Interviewer: So this is Joe Ortman on May 19th, 2019 and I am here with--<br /><br />Narrator: Vicki Abshere, and my last name is A-B-S-H-E-R-E<br /><br />Interviewer: Okay, so Vicki, could you tell us a memory or a favorite story you have about the park or just the neighborhood in general?<br /><br />Narrator: Okay, we’ve -- we’ve lived in the Tenney-Lapham neighborhood for about thirty-five--thirty-six--something like that, maybe even-- <br /><br />Interviewer: Wow.<br /><br />Narrator: --thirty-eight years? Um, because I’m just thinking my son is thirty-six. So we’ve lived here for a long time. And I have three memories and they revolve around each of my three children. <br /><br />Interviewer: Okay.<br /><br />Narrator: And my oldest child is, um, like I say I think he’s thirty-seven now. [LAUGHS] I can’t remember. But he--we used to come down to the beach when he was a toddler and spent many, many hours playing in the sand and the rocks and things--water--at Tenney beach. And one year when we were down there and I had at least one other baby and maybe two at that point--because I think he was four, so I would have had, two--anyway, he came up and brought me a rock that he had found, and when I looked at it closely it turned out it was an arrowhead. <br /><br />Interviewer: Oh, wow.<br /><br />Narrator: [LAUGHS] So one of the very first things that he found on the beach was an arrowhead. And we kept that for many, many years. I should have brought it here and maybe shown it.<br /><br />Interviewer: That’s fantastic.<br /><br />Narrator: Yeah, and I don’t know, I think at one point we showed it to somebody who knew about arrowheads and he said it was maybe 1000 years old or something like that, so that was a cool thing.<br /><br />Interviewer: That’s really cool.<br /><br />Narrator: Yeah. The second story I wanted to tell was about--my daughter, who is two years younger. She’s now thirty-five, and, I wanted to talk about Carla Hacker, who was a teacher at Lapham Elementary for many, many years, and she did many fun things with the kids--outdoor adventures with the kids--but one thing she always did was bring the kids to Tenney Lagoon in the wintertime. They bundled everybody up, and [LAUGHS] just trooped the whole first, second--and you know--kindergarten, first, second grade down to Tenney Park, um, and taught them how to ice skate.<br /><br />Interviewer: Oh, wow!<br /><br />Narrator: True story. [LAUGHS] And, which is crazy, I don’t know if they would do it now. But, so she would give everybody little chairs and my daughter learned how to ice skate in second grade, pushing a little chair on the lagoon here at, uh, frozen Tenney park. And so--it’s very--I love the--I love the ice skating. <br /><br />And the third thing is my youngest, Devin, who was a kayak instructor for many years, off Law Park [narrator edit: this was actually JAMES MADISON Park] back when it would--had a boathouse, and uh, you know instruction that way. And one time-- and he would take kids up and down the waterway down to Tenney Park--and one time there was a thunderstorm and he happened to be guiding and instructing a bunch of kids who happened to be deaf. And so [LAUGHS] it was, it was very scary, because he tells the story of how, you know, they’re happily just playing around in the water and the kayaks and stuff, and have no idea that there’s just been thunder. And so he has to gather everybody up and bring them onshore, and, um, it was just an exciting--one of the many adventures he had teaching kayaking. And, so those are my three fond memories of Ten--Oh, and he drove, he drove his pickup truck down [LAUGHS] you know on the grass to gather up the kayaks and get the kids out of there as soon as possible--that was the other thing--<br /><br />But that’s all I wanted to say. I just love the park and I love that Caroline Hoffman has put this together.<br /><br />Interviewer: Fantastic<br /><br />[END OF RECORDING]
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Living History Project<br />Collection: Tenney Park Century Celebration<br />Date: May 19, 2019<br />Narrator: Denise Breyne<br />Length of audio: 00:05:43<br />Identifier: Tenney-019<br />Transcribed by: Brea Adams <br /><br />INDEX:<br />01:15—ACTIVITIES FOR CHILDREN IN TENNEY PARK<br /><br />01:30; 04:05—CHANGES IN TENNEY PARK AND NEIGHBORHOOD OVER THE YEARS<br /><br />03:05—NEIGHBORHOOD CULTURE<br /><br />[START OF RECORDING]<br /><br />Interviewer: This is Carol Griskavich - we are at the Tenney Park Century Celebration in Tenney Park shelter. Today is May 19, 2019 and we are joined by—<br /><br />Narrator: Denise Breyne, B-R-E-Y-N-E.<br /><br />Interviewer: Great. And, Denise, what is your connection to Tenney Park and the Tenney-Lapham neighborhood? <br /><br />Narrator: I have lived here for twenty-one years, moved here from St. Louis Missouri. My husband got a job in Madison, and-- my--I’ve raised my kids here who are now nineteen and fifteen and it’s, it’s home [laughter]. <br /><br />Interviewer: And, have--obviously raising kids here--have you all spent a lot of time in the park? <br /><br />Narrator: Yes, yes. Year round, Tenney Park has been, and the beach area too, have been kind of the background of my kids’ childhood, um, it makes me emotional to even talk about it honestly [laughter].<br /><br />Interviewer: Yeah—there’s been a lot of different types of activities for children here? <br /><br />Narrator: Yup, yeah so when they were little just playing on the playground and poking around in the water looking for critters, looking for plants and kind of watching as the park has gotten, like, you can hear frogs now—you couldn’t, you didn’t hear frogs 20 years ago in the springtime. But now I can hear them from my house, a block away because it’s, they’ve been doing so many sweeping changes here. And then, you know, and then when they got snowshoes, going to the park in snowshoes for the first time! And skating in the winter, pushing kids’ sleds around, and just, you know, tennis and soccer games, yeah, everything. It’s been a great place to be. <br /><br />Interviewer: And, so, you came from St. Louis, did you have any connections to Madison before you came here? <br /><br />Narrator: No, nothing, yeah.<br /><br />Interviewer: So, I mean, other than your husband’s job, um, what attracted you to the Tenney-Lapham neighborhood specifically? <br /><br />Narrator: Ah, well really the park, and I, I remember we were house hunting, we were going back and forth, and we were sitting at the beach on a picnic table--kind of backs to the water facing Tenney Park--and like going through our list of all the houses, and we were just like, “This place is amazing!” And then we went through a house on Baldwin Street, and like, it had issues —you know, we walked in and there was plywood instead of boards on—but I don’t know, we walked in and I looked back at my husband like, “This is it.” <br /><br />Interviewer: Wow.<br /><br />Narrator: Like, I know. So, and that, that really, it was, it just felt right. And it has been, I mean our neighbors have been such a close community, you know. Everyone when the kids were little every Friday there were parties in the driveway and we’d all bring drinks or bring food and the kids all played in the backyards together. There weren’t really—we didn’t have fences, and the kids, my neighbors had kids my age, almost exact same age, and then the people next to them, and so we had this--just these tiny little backyards became one big backyard for them, and moms hung out, and the kids played, and it was, you know, I don’t know. They just dug in the dirt and built igloos in the winter and, it’s really a good place to bring up kids. <br /><br />Interviewer: That’s great. So, you’ve been here for over two decades. Um, other than the frogs, which is amazing, what changes have you seen, ah, in the neighborhood, and more specifically in the park? <br /><br />Narrator: Ah, I mean the park has become more, just like with the plantings, I mean the plantings have changed, and it’s, I guess there’s that small outbuilding I don’t even know what it is yet, I think it’s some kind of water building, out, closer to the beach area, and that used to be just kind of covered with trees and stuff and that got cleared off and cleaned up and it’s like this pretty little building, mystery building [laughter] I’m not sure what it, what it is. <br /><br />And just the native plants, and shoreline plants, and they’ve changed, all of the, ah, I don’t know, like places for people to just fish and hang out, made it more accessible it feels like. It’s also--I see a lot more, like, water, flooding and stuff. Not just last year, but just, in general, it seems like there’s more of that also. Yeah, I don’t know, well and the shelter, of course. We’re starting here, you know we’ve come in in the winter to skate, or you know go skating and the kids would change—we had birthday parties in the shelter, and um, then when they were gonna tear it down I was like, “Aww, I kind of like it, this old building.” And now of course [laughter] the new one is amazing, so, it’s been great. <br /><br />Interviewer: Well, do you have anything else you want to add about the neighborhood or the park?<br /><br />Narrator: Ahh, I don’t know that I can think of anything else right now.<br /><br />Interviewer: Okay.<br /><br />Narrator: Except that I love it, that’s all [laughter].<br /><br />Interviewer: That’s great.<br /><br />Narrator: It's a good place to be.<br /><br />Interviewer: Yup<br /><br />Narrator: I feel lucky.<br /><br />Interviewer: Good. Well, thank you—<br /><br />[END OF RECORDING]
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INDEX:<br /><br />00:32—FAMILY ACTIVITIES IN TENNEY PARK<br /><br />01:08—SUNSETS IN TENNEY PARK<br /><br />01:50—PLANNING FOR CELEBRATION OF PARK ANNIVERSARY<br /><br />[START OF RECORDING]<br /><br />Interviewer: This is Joe Orman on May 9th, 2019 and I am here with:<br /><br />Narrator: Karen Crossley – C-R-O-S-S-L-E-Y<br /><br />Interviewer: And today we’re just gonna talk about a favorite memory that you have at the park or, you know, something that you remember about the park.<br /><br />Narrator: Ok, well, my husband and I and our family have lived in the neighborhood for thirty-one years and raised our children here. They were all born, and raised, now they’re adults.<br /><br />Interviewer: [LAUGHS]<br /><br />Narrator: So we have many, many, many, many memories ranging from summertime swimming at the beach--I still swim in the lakes--to playing on the playground. We’re avid winter lovers so ice skating, here, at the park, on the lagoons when it was super duper cold, bringing our shovels over when no one else was over here and just playing with neighbors--and yeah--it was like our big backyard.<br /><br />Interviewer: Do you have a, like a favorite memory or something that really stands out to you from your time here?<br /><br />Narrator: Yeah, well, just so many. I love the fact, though, that from Tenney Park you look out over Lake Mendota and you can see the beautiful sky-- <br /><br />Interviewer: Right<br /><br />Narrator: --Particularly in the afternoon, and evening, and the sunsets. And so, there were many, many days when we would stroll over, either with my husband, myself, with our children--one of our children--and just walk along the path by the beach and out on the breakwater. Or coming home on the bike, or whatever, and just admiring that big vista from right here on the isthmus, beautiful.<br /><br />Interviewer: That’s really great. Uh, do you have any thoughts about the one hundred year anniversary of the park or, you know, how the park’s changed over the years<br /><br />Narrator: Sure, well I feel really lucky and honored that I got to work on the planning team-- <br /><br />Interviewer: Hmmm<br /><br />Narrator: --For this whole thing. So beginning last summer when I met with Caroline Hoffman--who actually submitted the grant on behalf of the neighborhood and received it--she was looking for some pals and partners to help. So I’ve been really in on this project from the ground floor, ranging from the art installation, which will be unveiled later today, and I’m really excited about that. But we lived in a one-hundred-year-old house and just so many aspects of the park and the neighborhood celebrating the hundred years are really fun to lift up. <br /><br />Interviewer: Alrighty, fantastic.<br /><br />[END OF RECORDING]
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File #1<br /><br />INDEX:<br />00:53—TENNEY PARK DURING THE SEASONS <br />01:49 –CHANGES TO TENNEY PARK OVER THE YEARS<br /><br />[START OF RECORDING]<br /><br />Interviewer: So this is Joe Orman. It’s uh, May 19th 2019 and I am here with-<br /><br />Narrator: Jeanette Deloya. ‘D’ as in David. E-L-O-Y-A. <br /><br />Interviewer: Alrighty. So can you tell me a little bit about your experience with the Tenney Park neighborhood?<br /><br />Narrator: Yeah. So I lived in the Tenney neighborhood for the last thirty-two years. <br /><br />Interviewer: Okay.<br /><br />Narrator: Almost 33 years.<br /><br />Interviewer: Wow!<br /><br />Narrator: And have always lived within the same, um, either street or the street right next to the street that I currently live on. Um, have grown to know the people and this place quite well. Love this park and have raised my kids here so they also have roots in this community and this neighborhood.<br /><br />Interviewer: Absolutely. Can you tell me a little bit about your, uh, favorite experiences with the park or favorite seasons to visit?<br /><br />Narrator: Yeah. So, um, actually almost every season--<br /><br />Interviewer: Mmm.<br /><br />Narrator: --is a favorite season in this park. I come from here with my two dogs. We’ve paddled down the river when it’s open. When it’s snowing we come and take photographs of crystals on trees. We spend time on the lagoon skating--in the wintertime. When the spring comes we’re like right out there enjoying the trees and what’s happening with, like, just the seasonal changes and what we can see. I think we’ve done everything from just sit in the park and have a picnic, to spending the entire day here with a hot thermos of hot cocoa and never even going home. Just spending the day. Yeah. <br /><br />Interviewer: That’s fantastic.<br /><br />Narrator: So. It’s a favorite place to be. <br /><br />Interviewer: Can you talk a little bit about, um, how the park has changed in, uh, the years that you’ve been here?<br /><br />Narrator: Sure. So I would say that in the first fifteen years that we were here there were actually times when I'm not sure that I would have felt so comfortable even walking through the park--alone--felt more comfortable with the dogs at my side. But that there were certainly times where it felt like [PAUSE] when – when I was nervous about that for my safety. And over the last ten years--possibly part of all the renovation that’s been doing there and all the attention that the park has received--it has increasingly felt like a comfortable place to be. Um, now when I walk through with my dogs – on leashes – <br /><br />Interviewer: [CHUCKLES}<br /><br />Narrator: --I’ll walk by and people who are here and kind of spending time here will say, “Hey, bring those pretty dogs over here!” And so there’s, um a sense of familiarity with the people who spend a lot of time here. And in general, it’s just become a place that I feel pretty comfortable.<br /><br />I would say also that it’s gotten cleaner. It’s gotten shinier. It’s gotten more accessible. It has evolved and stayed current. The parks--the playgrounds--have changed. Um, it’s just been the recipient of good neighborhood and community attention. <br /><br />Interviewer: That’s great to hear. And can you, uh, really quickly tell me a little bit about what you’re doing at the celebration today?<br /><br />Narrator: So, part of what I’m doing at the celebration is welcoming Bill and Bobby Malone [sp?] who will be performing outside in just a little while. Um, and I’m here just to kind of help and celebrate the park. <br /><br />Interviewer: Okay. Fantastic.<br /><br />[END OF RECORDING]
File #2<br /><br />INDEX:<br /><br />00:11—Life Lessons with Fisherman Greg<br /><br />[START OF RECORDING]<br /><br />Interviewer: This is Joe Orman on May 19, 2019. I’m here back with ah Jeanette Deloya and she does have a story that she’d like to share. <br /><br />Narrator: Yes. So here’s my story. Um, on a regular basis--almost every single day--I walk my dogs through this park. <br /><br />Interviewer: Mhmm.<br /><br />Narrator: Sometimes it’s down on the jetty, sometimes it’s up through the park and past the tennis courts and along the lagoon and home. And um as I um, as I’ve been doing that I’ve been getting to know a fair number of the people that spend their time in this park. And one of them is a fisherman whose name, I believe, might be Greg. Or something like that. And Greg was always out on the pier every single day, fishing. And after a while, I would say hello to Greg as I walked by and he [inaudible]--sometimes he was out there with his grandsons and sometimes he was out there by himself-- But after a while, we got to know each other. And um one day as I was walking by – he was a little bit grumpy, kind of grumpy--<br /><br />Interviewer: Mhmm.<br /><br />Narrator: --sort of craggy kind of guy. And he’s out there and he’s fishing and he’s throwing his line in and I walk by just as he’s pulling like this tiny little three-and-a-half inch bluegill up out of the water and he doesn’t look too excited – I’m excited because he’s just caught a fish and I got to see it. <br /><br />And I said,<br />“Wow, Greg you just caught a fish!” <br /><br />He goes, “Ah, yeah, it’s just a bluegill.” <br /><br />I said, “But that’s great!” <br /><br />He said, “Naaah, I-I’m just gonna throw him back in.” <br /><br />I’m like, “Why are you gonna throw him back in?” <br /><br />He goes, “I’m – he’s bait. This little fish is just gonna be bait.” <br /><br />And I said, “Awww, Greg, bait? Poor little guy.” <br /><br />You know, just then he, like, heaves this bluegill back into the water and [it] goes, like, skimming along the surface and plops down into the water and he turns and he looks at me and he goes. “Well you know, that’s the life of a fish.”<br /><br />Interviewer: [LAUGHS]<br /><br />Narrator: And I said, “Life of a fish, that’s kinda, that’s too bad.” <br /><br />He goes, “Well you know sometimes you just--it takes a little one to catch a big one.”<br /><br />Interviewer: [LAUGHS]<br /><br />Narrator: And I thought well that’s like the lesson for me for today, I’m gonna remember that. Sometimes it just takes a little one to catch a big one. Thanks, Greg. So, there’s life’s lessons at Tenney Park. <br /><br />Interviewer: Okay, alrighty. <br /><br />[END OF RECORDING]
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INDEX:<br />00:58—KIDS’ CHILDHOODS EXPERIENCES IN TENNEY PARK<br />02:47—CHANGES TO PROPERTY VALUES IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD<br />04:11—CHANGES TO TENNEY PARK<br /><br />[START OF RECORDING]<br /><br />Interviewer: This is Joe Orman, it is May 19, 2019, and I am here with:<br /><br />Narrator: Sue Fieber – F-I-E-B-E-R<br /><br />Interviewer: So Sue, can you tell me a little bit about your experience with, uh, the neighborhood, how long you’ve lived here, things like that?<br /><br />Narrator: Ok, we lived in the neighborhood from 1976 to 2001-- <br /><br />Interviewer: OK.<br /><br />Narrator: --so we don’t live here anymore. We lived on Few Street, um, we raised our four kids in the neighborhood and when, when we got to the point where my husband and I could see mobility issues coming--<br /><br />Interviewer: Mmm-hmm.<br /><br />Narrator: --we needed to get out of our two-story, one bathroom house so we bought a ranch in another--in a suburb.<br /><br />Interviewer: Ok, and uh, in terms of the park, can you tell me a little bit about, uh, you know, what it was like with your kids in the park, favorite memories, favorite seasons?<br /><br />Narrator: I think the most striking thing is that when we were raising our kids, they--we could just send them to the park and we didn’t have to bring them once they were five, six, seven. They could come themselves, and they spent a lot of time here. Um, one of our daughters used to fish in the river. Um, and I don’t know if it was smart but she’d bring home a lot of bluegills--<br /><br />Interviewer: Uh-huh.<br /><br />Narrator: --that she caught and we’d actually eat them. I don’t think we’d do that today. And her fishing lasted until one day she got a fishhook caught in her ear--<br /><br />Interviewer: Oooof.<br /><br />Narrator: --and I was too gutless to pull it out so we had to go to the ER.<br /><br />Interviewer: [LAUGHS]<br /><br />Narrator: But I just remember the park as a place where the kids could just kinda run. And we’re learning now about things like how our son jumped off the Marston Bridge--<br /><br />Interviewer: [LAUGHS]<br /><br />Narrator: --when he was a kid; we never knew that. So, but, it was a great thing to have and I don’t think now that that’s true, I think people have to be a little more careful of their kids in the park now, which is too bad.<br /><br />Interviewer: And so, how, I guess, how did you find out about the hundred-year celebration, and I guess, what brought you here?<br /><br />Narrator: Somebody --somebody told us, I don’t know-- I think, oh, I know--Barbara and David Fleishar, old friends who we still see and they sent us an email, so that’s how we decided to come. So it’s really great, it’s a fun event.<br /><br />Interviewer: Yeah.<br /><br />Narrator: A lot of planning it looks like. <br /><br />Interviewer: Oh yeah, absolutely.<br /><br />Narrator: So--<br /><br />Interviewer: Um, can you talk a little bit, uh, while you were living in the neighborhood, I guess how you saw change, and how you saw the park change?<br /><br />Narrator: Uh [PAUSE] uh, when we moved in, um, our street was like on the edge of student housing--<br /><br />Interviewer: Mm-hmm.<br /><br />Narrator: --and when we bought the house there were--there was talk of how the students were going to expand and expand and expand and we were a young family and it made us a little bit nervous. But the house--the price of the house was good so, um, we did it. And as it turned out there were a lot of people like us, some were here before us, some came after, and it kinda, the neighborhood stabilized and, this part, the part just, um, east? west? of the park stayed pretty much stayed owner-occupied throughout our time here. I think it still is. <br /><br />Um, we bought our house in 1976 for $38,000, um, when we sold it in ’01 we got $209,000 and we could have had a bidding war if we wanted to, but we didn’t have the stomach for that. But it’s amazing how the property values have gone up; it’s just become a really hot place to live. <br /><br />So, as to how the park changed, I think, I think the maintenance kind of declined over the years and actually now I think it’s starting to look better. This is a beautiful rehab of the old--this was the old shelter--where we would bring the kids skating.<br /><br />Interviewer: Uh-huh.<br /><br />Narrator: And this was the warming house or whatever, yeah, so but it’s really a great place to have parties and weddings and all kinds of stuff now, so that’s really cool.<br /><br />Interviewer: All right, I think that’s about it.<br /><br />[END OF RECORDING]
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INDEX:<br />00:15 DEVELOPMENT OF CENTENNIAL ART EXHIBIT<br />03:07: MEMORIES OF TENNEY PARK<br />03:35: ORIGINAL TENNEY PARK DESIGN <br />04:25: EARLY EVENTS IN TENNEY PARK<br /><br />[START OF RECORDING]<br /><br />NARRATOR: I used to work with him. <br /><br />INTERVIEWER: Okay. This is Joe Orman, it is May 19, 2019, and I am here with— <br /><br />NARRATOR: Caroline Hoffman. H-O-F-F-M-A-N<br /><br />INTERVIEWER: Alright, and Caroline you said you wanted to talk about the sculpture garden? <br /><br />NARRATOR: Yeah so, today we’re having the big Centennial Celebration for Tenney Park, and at four thirty, we’re gonna unveil a postcard installation—<br /><br />INTERVIEWER: OK<br /><br />NARRATOR: --it’s in Tenney Park, it’s gonna be permanent. And what we did was, I printed up, vintage postcards from 1900, enlarged them, and they’re printed on aluminum. And they’re gonna be permanently in the park—there’s five of them! So the story of them, is that I am the child of a collector. My father collected lots of stuff--<br /><br />INTERVIEWER: Great.<br /><br />NARRATOR: --Japanese prints, daguerreotypes, old maps. And he strongly believed that— you—the joy is not in the owning, but in the collecting. So he believed that when you had collections you needed to get them back out there so others could see it. <br /><br />About fifteen years ago, a woman who was born on the same street that I am—Marston Avenue, which faces Tenney Park—her name was Martha Kilgore--she had a postcard collection. And, she showed it to me, and she also said: “There must be some way that we can show this to other people.” Fast forward another fifteen years and I was selected by the city to design one of their utility art boxes--<br /><br />INTERVIEWER: OK.<br /><br />NARRATOR: --Once my art box was up, I thought: "what can we do with these postcards"? So I wandered around—I wandered around the park and other areas of the city. And decided that they needed to be in the middle of a park. Not near the shelter--where too easy to see--we wanted it where people had to walk to see it. <br /><br />So, we decided, I decided on the location. I went to my neighborhood association—the Tenney-Lapham Neighborhood Association. They said “Good’. I wrote a grant to the city, for a neighborhood grant. We got the grant, and the grant includes not only the celebration but the postcard installation. So at four thirty, we encourage everyone to come see. It’ll be up there as long as they last. Which--aluminum--should be a long time. <br /><br />INTERVIEWER: --Should be a long time.<br /><br />NARRATOR: --A long time! <br /><br />INTERVIEWER: That’s fantastic. So have you lived here your whole life then, in this neighborhood?<br /><br />NARRATOR: No I moved here in 19, um, 77. I bought the house in ’77. I live across from Tenney Park. So—and—it’s a two-flat, and we have a spectacular view on the second floor of the whole park. So--and there are--I know of three people who lived their whole lives on my block. So--<br /><br />INTERVIEWER: Yeah, that’s fantastic. <br /><br />NARRATOR: So--Um, I also enlarged—and they’re outside, we can bring them in here--some maps that showed the original way that Tenney Park was designed, and the way it currently looks. Want me to go get one? <br /><br />INTERVIEWER: Uh, yeah I’d like to—I’d love to see it probably after the break. That’d be fantastic. <br /><br />NARRATOR: Ok, ok, that’s about it.<br /><br />INTERVIEWER: Yeah so, in terms of the park itself, do you have like any specific favorite memories or any specific times in the park?<br /><br />NARRATOR: Oh geez, I loved the roller slide.<br /><br />INTERVIEWER: [LAUGHS] <br /><br />NARRATOR: So there were two things the city had and then they removed because they said it was liab—a liability issue. <br /><br />INTERVIEWER: Right--<br /><br />NARRATOR: --One was a roller slide which was so much fun, and the other was the see-saws, or the teeter-totters , depending on where you’re from. The city removed those. They were fun, um, that’s too bad. Otherwise, we used to play baseball out there, and I play tennis now, and, it’s a great park. But the original design was not like this at all. <br /><br />INTERVIEWER: Hm. <br /><br />NARRATOR: In 1909, Mr. Simonds designed it to be a serpentine design. He believed you leave the world better than the way you found it. And so his design was wilderness. It involved a lot of lagoons, a lot of islands. And he wanted people to get in canoes and go by and see wilderness. And Mr. Olin had hired him. He made the design, and then, the public hated it. <br /><br />INTERVIEWER: Hm. <br /><br />NARRATOR: They were a working-class neighborhood, and they just absolutely hated it. They said, “We want recreation”. <br /><br />INTERVIEWER: Mm. <br /><br />NARRATOR: SO, Olin hired Nolan—John Nolan. John Nolan came in and redesigned it for recreation— baseball and other things. And then—nobody came! So, Olin came up with another idea. He said: “Why don’t we have a concert, a brass concert, in the middle of the park.” This is 1912--1912-1913. He said, “Let’s have a concert and give away ice-cream!” So, the first time he did it, four-thousand people came-- <br /><br />INTERVIEWER: Wow. <br /><br />NARRATOR: --The population of Madison at this time was only thirty-two thousand. Four-thousand people came, to go to this concert. From then on, every Sunday there was a concert. People came, they sold ice cream and made money for the Madison Park and Pleasure Drive. And from then on, people used it. But he needed to get people here initially and so, that’s how he did it. <br /><br />INTERVIEWER: That’s fantastic. <br /><br />NARRATOR: So, the park you see now is really designed by John Nolan, but Mr. Simonds had a good idea! <br /><br />INTERVIEWER: Yeah! <br /><br />NARRATOR: Yeah. <br /><br />[END OF RECORDING]
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INDEX<br />0:40 - PUBLIC GARDENING<br />0:50 - TENNY PARK NEIGHBORHOOD<br />5:05 - TENNY PARK RESTORATION<br />5:20 - O.C. SIMONDS<br />5:30 - MADISON FLOOD OF 2018<br /><br />[START OF RECORDING]<br /><br />INTERVIEWER: This is Carol Griskavich at the Tenney Park Century Celebration on May 19, 2019. We are joined today by—<br /><br />NARRATOR: Gigi Holland, H-O-L-L-A-N-D. <br /><br />INTERVIEWER: Gigi, what is your connection to Tenney Park and the surrounding neighborhood?<br /><br />NARRATOR: I moved into this neighborhood—I live on Sherman Avenue and I moved, I bought the house—in 1977. And moved in, in 1980. So I'm actually almost 40 years in the neighborhood. And for years I've gardened at public places in the neighborhood and so an area here, at Tenney Park, is one of the places I gardened.<br /><br />INTERVIEWER: And how did you come to, to garden in public gardening spaces?<br /><br />NARRATOR: Um, mainly, the situation where around two historic buildings, the landscaping wasn't being taken care of, and so, It just seemed natural, as a person in the neighborhood, to get involved. And it's been very rewarding. But I'd like to just briefly say something about my house, because I lived there for all these years, and I fixed it up. And it was a real fixer-upper. And I just recently sold it. But I'm going to be able to live, at least for two years on the, on the first floor where I lived as part of the deal. And the new buyers are a wonderful young family and they will live on the second and third floor of my house. The house is a three flat. So, it's a very good arrangement and I'm very grateful. But, I wanted to tell about those years so long ago when I bought the house. I didn't know a thing about real estate, and I was a]newly single person; newly divorced. And my attorney said cheerfully, "Why don't you buy income property?" Well, I didn't know a thing about income property and I lived on a farm down near New Glarus. I didn't even live in Madison although I was teaching school in Madison. Well, there weren't very many houses for sale, and they were really dismal. And this was the least dismal of all. And it was stucco, and no two sides of the house matched. They were different colors on all the sides, and the shutters were different colors, and the trim was different colors. And, so it was indeed a challenge. So, partly, I, I came by in the car with my twins who were 13 years old. And I paused in front of the house and I said, "I bought that house." And of course, they said to me, "Oh no! It looks like it's covered in cottage cheese." (laughs) So, the years—about the first thing I did was get rid of the white. And, it took about a year to at least turn the visuals around. And a little bit longer to deal with the inside. But it's been a good forty years.<br /><br />INTERVIEWER: And so, did you learn a lot about—did you become your own contractor?<br /><br />NARRATOR: Yes, yes, I had been involved with rehabbing the farmhouse where we lived and I loved old houses. But, I ended up going into property management and getting a brokers license. It's really kind of changed my life.<br /><br />INTERVIEWER: That's fantastic. And so, do your children still live in the area? Or have your children bought income properties?<br /><br />NARRATOR: No, no. One of my kids, um, family, they own a cottage. And I think, um, owning, owning a house in Chicago and owning a cottage is all they can manage, yeah.<br /><br />INTERVIEWER: And, so, having lived in this area for over four decades. What changes in the neighborhood or changes in the Park have you seen? Or, do you feel like it's stayed the same?<br /><br />NARRATOR: I think the park had a lot of trees and bushes and foliage that had grown up all around the lagoon. And four or five years ago, they really neatened it up to bring it back to what the plan was that O.C. Simonds visualized for the park. Uh, and that was wonderful. And people, initially, were worried that it would look too bare, but it didn't. Obviously after the flood of last fall, it did, it has looked bare. But it'll come back. Up and down the street I would say that the biggest change is children. It's wonderful. There's been a whole, whole influx of children. And, and more coming, yeah. More little ones. And that includes the big houses on the lake across the street from me. Younger families are springing to buy these bigger houses. So there's lots more dogs and lots more children.<br /><br />INTERVIEWER: Haha, well is there anything else you'd like to add Gigi?<br /><br />NARRATOR: No, I don't believe so, it's been a wonderful neighborhood. It's been absolutely perfect.<br /><br />INTERVIEWER: That's wonderful, thank you very much.<br /><br />NARRATOR: Thank you.<br /><br />[END OF RECORDING]
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INDEX<br />0:19, 2:15, 4:29 - TENNEY PARK NEIGHBORHOOD<br />0:30, 3:55 - TENNEY PARK<br />0:46 - TENNEY PARK NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION<br />0:50 - TENNEY PARK RESTORATION<br />1:08 - FRIENDS OF THE YAHARA RIVER PARKWAY<br />3:05 - O.C. (OSSIAN COLE) SIMONDS, LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT<br />3:46 - JOHN OLIN<br />3:55 - MADISON PARKS AND PLEASURE DRIVE<br />4:05 - BLACKHAWK COUNTRY CLUB<br />5:05 - HILL FAMILY, EARLY AFRICAN AMERICAN RESIDENTS<br />5:05 - HILL FAMILY GROCERY STORE<br /><br /><br />[START OF RECORDING]<br /><br />Interviewer: This is Carol Griskavich we are here at the Tenney Park Century Celebration on May 19th 2019 and today we’re joined by—<br /><br />Narrator: Ed Jepsen. J-E-P-S-E-N. <br /><br />Interviewer: Fantastic. So, Ed, what is your connection to Tenney Park and the Tenney Park neighborhood?<br /><br />Narrator: In 1976 I moved into 445 North Few Street with my family. My daughter was born several months after that. And we already had a son. And we used to love to come to the beach at Tenney Park to swim, and we would play at the various playgrounds. And basically we really had a great time. It was also one of the other things that was important to me, I was very involved with the neighborhood association. We worked to actually make the Park greener than it is today by taking out some of the road ways, adding more trees and more shrubs, and getting back to the more natural landscape that the historic plan calls for. And also, I was part of a group called the Friends of the Yahara River Park Way. It was a 501(c)3 group that existed for about 15 years. And basically we worked with the Parks District. Um, city staff parks. County, State, working to get the under-passes built on the um, the Yahara Park Way. And getting the new shelter built. We were, we were a part of that group. So it was really a great effort and Tenney Park is really such a wonderful asset to the community and it was nice to be able to give something back to it over the years. So, that was all that I really wanted to say and it was just fabulous. <br /><br />Interviewer: Well that’s fantastic, and do you still live in the neighborhood?<br /><br />Narrator: Actually I moved to the near west side a number of years ago, but as I tell people, my head and heart is still around the Isthmus. My body lives on the west side. <br /><br />Interviewer: [LAUGHTER] Fantastic. Over the years, um, how do you see Tenney Park as having changed? Both the park and also the surrounding neighborhood. <br /><br />Narrator: Well the neighborhood has gotten more upscale. It was more working class at the time and more students. Now it’s more owner-occupied. And if one goes down East Washington Avenue you can see the tremendous changes that have happened there. And again, having served on the council we saw that that was coming and part of the work that we did between Tenney Park and Yahara Park Way, was, we knew there was going to be more development. And we thought that the parks, if they were developed properly, properly maintained and they were considered assets, that actually would enhance the value of the neighborhood as well as encourage the type of development we wanted to see. <br /><br />Interviewer: Excellent. And would you like to uh introduce us to someone else?<br /><br />Narrator: Yes. Well today I am at the celebration and I am representing O.C. Simonds. That’s Ossian Cole Simonds. He was one of the leading landscape architects of the late 1800s and early 1900s. He was originally from the state of Michigan. He attended the University of Michigan uh where he was an Architecture and Engineering student. But he was influenced by landscape architects that came from Chicago, to tell them about it. And he took jobs in Chicago where he was one of the main architects, landscape architects, of the Graceland Cemetery. And through John Olin who may have been interviewed here earlier today, I believe. He brought me to Madison and I was involved through the Madison Parks and Pleasure Drive with the design of Tenney Park and um, Yahara Park Way and also with the, he was also involved with the Black Hawk Country Club in Shorewood. So he’s had a number of um, activities where he was working here in the City of Madison. So it was really great. Oh and one of the [PAUSE] I think I’m done with O.C. <br /><br />Interviewer: Okay now we’re back to Mr. Ed Jepsen.<br />[LAUGHTER]<br /><br />Narrator: To Mr. Ed Jepsen, yeah. Here was something I wanted to tell. One of the stories I think somebody may have mentioned is, one of the really nice connections of having a river that runs through it is the neighbors would often, at the end of the school year, get together in canoes, kayaks, rafts, and we would all float down the river to take the kids to school for the very last day. And we’d take things – food- it was really sort of a gala event. Little flats and what-not. So, we really had a great time. So it was one of those things it was a close knit neighborhood. It’s got a great neighborhood association. And we’ve really done a lot to make it a great place to live. <br /><br />Interviewer: Absolutely. Mr. Jepsen, if I may ask about the pin- beneath that it says “the Hill family since 1910” on it. May I ask you about the Hill family or the young women who is portrayed on this pin?<br /><br />Narrator: Yes, this is a young African-American woman and she is reputed to be the first African-American woman to graduate from UW-Madison. Their family owned – not a restaurant – but a grocery store at the corner of, I believe it was Brearly and Dayton Street for almost fifty years. <br /><br />Interviewer: Wow.<br /><br />Narrator: Or sixty years, and now they’re in the process of trying to renovate it. It has an attached home and a grocery store with an apartment above. So anyways this was one—this was one of the early, earliest African-American stories in the city of Madison. So I bought the pin. Just to support the non-profit that they’re—<br /><br />Interviewer: That’s fantastic.<br /><br />Narrator: --and the restoration work that they’re doing. <br /><br />Interviewer: That’s fantastic.<br /><br />Narrator: Yeah.<br /><br />Interviewer: And um, do you know what they’re [planning] with the restoration?<br /><br />Narrator: Yeah.<br /><br />Interviewer: This is new to me.<br /><br />Narrator: Yeah, well my understanding is that they want to restore the store in a historic fashion. And then they’re obviously not going to make it a grocery store. They were thinking like maybe a coffee house or a place where people come in and maybe have a drink, something, I’m not quite sure. I’m not sure if you interviewed them. But that would be an interesting thing to do.<br /><br />Interviewer: Yeah, it would.<br /><br />Narrator: So.<br /><br />Interviewer: We’ll see if we can get them—<br /><br />Narrator: Corral ‘em.<br /><br />Interviewer: We’ll see.<br /><br />Narrator: But yeah, but it was really fascinating and one of the things I remember, I used to worked for the Department of Natural Resources, so I used to walk from my house by Tenney Park to the downtown office. And I used to walk by the grocery store. And it was never open when I was—when I went by it. But it was just interesting to see this relic of the 1910s and 20s in the neighborhood with Hills grocery on it. So it was really cool. <br /><br />Interviewer: That’s fantastic.<br /><br />Narrator: So.<br /><br />Interviewer: And I did not know that it was an African-American family until actually many years later, there was a plaque and it describes it today.<br /><br />Interviewer: Okay.<br /><br />Narrator: So. <br /><br />Interviewer: Well, is there anything else you would like to add, either as Mr. Jepsen or as Mr. Simonds?<br /><br />Narrator: [LAUGHS] Well there’s a million stories in a naked city but actually I have to run—<br /><br />Interviewer: Okay.<br /><br />Narrator – as my role as O.C. Simonds for the unveiling of the post cards. <br /><br />Interviewer: Great.<br /><br />Narrator: Thank you very much for this.<br /><br />[END OF RECORDING]
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INDEX<br />0:19, 2:10, 4:30 - TENNEY PARK NEIGHBORHOOD<br />1:15 - MADISON ISTHMUS<br />1:48, 6:05 - LAPHAM SCHOOL<br />2:35 - TENNY PARK<br />2:40 - ICE SKATING<br />3:00 - FISHING IN THE LAGOON<br />4:30 - WATER SLIDE AT BEACH<br />5:25 - CHILDCARE PROGRAM AT BEACH<br />5:00 - TROLLEY<br />3:30 - 2018 FLOOD<br />3:45 - LAKE MENDOTA WATERSHED<br /><br /><br />[START OF RECORDING]<br /><br />I: This is. This is Joe Orman. It is May 19, 2019, and I am here with:<br /><br />N: Jackie Kaplan. Um, K-A-P-L-A-N<br /><br />I: Okay.<br /><br />N: And I live over on Marston Street. Um, I first came to Madison, um, I'm originally from Chicago but I first came to Madison after living in Vermont.<br /><br />I: Okay.<br /><br />N: And it was just too isolated, so I came to Madison, I thought it would be a great place to live, and um, originally I got an apartment over at Sherman Terrace and I lived there for about six years. And when I very first came to Madison, and was moving over to Sherman Terrace, um, my parents were, had loaded up the car, and we came down Marston Street to cut over, to get over to Sherman Ave, and Sherman Terrace. And my dad said, "Oh this would be a nice street to live on!" and I said, "Oh, dad, I could never afford to live on this street." But, eventually I could! Um, so I moved to my house in '87, and um, the Isthmus had been just about written off, nobody thought anybody would want to live on the Isthmus except for very old people who had their old houses and um, students. And actually, um, I was like, a thousand dollars too much in salary otherwise I could've gotten a WHEDA loan-<br /><br />I: Right, right.<br /><br />N: Yea. Uh, umm for, and, and the WHEDA loans were for people who had moderate income who, umm, to just encourage people to move to the isthmus. Because, they just thought the isthmus was gonna be written off. And there was a lot about how they're gonna tear down all the houses. Of course Lapham school was closed.<br /><br />I: Right.<br /><br />N: Ummm, so, I think the big thing is just how desirable the isthmus has become. And people love living on the Isthmus now, and, and, and there's a real sense of neighborhood. And of course, all the apartments over on East Washington now. And now they're starting to build apartments over on East Johnson, and um, I wonder if that's going to change the neighborhood. Because I think people who live in these high rises aren't going to have a real sense of ownership in the neighborhood.<br /><br />I: Right.<br /><br />N: Umm, but, um, so far so good.<br /><br />I: Alright. So can you tell me a little bit about living near Tenney Park and just memories you've got about Tenney Park?<br /><br />N: Umm, it's just great living near the Park. My house faces near the Park, I get to sit umm, on my bed and watch people skate and umm, every year there's somebody, not always the same person, who's, who's skating at 5:30, 6:00 in the morning. It's not unusual for people to go, to park their car, go for a skate. Put their, umm, ice skates into their trunk of their car and take the bus in to work.<br /><br />I: Huh.<br /><br />N: Um, and actually when they were um rebuilding my street, the workmen brought their um fishing poles with them, and lounge chairs and they would sit and, and, um, fish off the lagoon, um, and then go back to the construction work again.<br /><br />I: That's really interesting.<br /><br />N: I think it's really significant what's hap-, you know after the big flood that we had...<br /><br />I: Mhmm<br /><br />N: Um, that that's also pulling the neighborhood together, and um, making people realize that, that uh, we're not going to have the neighborhood if we don't advocate for it. Um, and also making us realize that the watershed doesn't end across the street, or even across Lake Mendota.<br /><br />I: Right.<br /><br />N: That the watershed is much, much bigger than that. And we gotta be looking at the whole area. Um, prob-, from, from way past Waunakee to way past Stoughton because that's really the whole ecological environment. Not just what happens in the, in the Tenney Park Lagoon.<br /><br />I: Right.<br /><br />N: Yea. Umm, [PAUSE] What else is there? It's interesting, um, I'm interested in history and it's interesting to know about, some things about Tenney Park. Um, I got to, um, we were going to do a historical project and put up some pictures of the pavilion that never happened. But, I got to meet the woman who's grandfather was the last janitor over at the school across...<br /><br />I: Okay, yeah.<br /><br />N: Across the street, and I got to talk to some older people. Um, there used to be a huge, um, slide, um off of the Tenney Park beach. Really enormous, like stuff that we would never do now because it would just be too scary.<br /><br />I: Mhmm.<br /><br />N: Um, and it was um, one woman told me that when she was a kid they would take the trolley over here, even though they lived on the west side because it was just, it, um, going to Tenney Park beach was like the best place in Madison to go to. Um, I also read that even into the fifties there was a playground [PAUSE] person at the playground in Tenney Park with the nice fence around it and um women could drop their kids off and let the kids just stay here<br /><br />I: [LAUGHTER]<br /><br />N: for the, for the whole day.<br /><br />I: Yea.<br /><br />N: Which is something we don't even, <br /><br />I: Right.<br /><br />N: Don't even have available to us anymore.<br /><br />I: Right.<br /><br />N: Um, is there anything else that, hmm? Yea.<br /><br />I: Ok.<br /><br />N: Yup, so. What else can I tell you about the area?<br /><br />I: Uh huh, yea.<br /><br />N: Oh! I, oh I think the only other thing is, um. Cuz I'm aware of the school system, there's kind of a crisis because, um, um, the ebb and flow of people living in the area is much slower than other places.<br /><br />I: Right.<br /><br />N: So, we were able to successfully reopen Lapham, but now our numbers are down again, because when people's kids grow up they don't leave the area! [LAUGHTER] So, there must have been at least fifteen kids on my block ten years ago.<br /><br />I: Right.<br /><br />N: And now they're all graduated from college and the families stay. For better or worse.<br /><br />I: Right.<br /><br />N: Yea.<br /><br />I: Alrighty.<br /><br />N: So anything else? Nope, that's it?<br /><br />I: I think that's it.<br /><br />[END OF RECORDING]
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INDEX, 012<br />0:32, 5:50 - TENNEY-LAPHAM NEIGHBORHOOD<br />2:20 - FOSTER RANDALL, PRINCIPAL AT EAST HIGH SCHOOL AND HIS WIFE HELEN<br />2:40 - TENNEY PARK ACTIVITIES AND GAMES<br />4:50 - ART CART<br />4:55 - ICE CREAM TRUCK<br /><br />INDEX - 012A<br />0:20 - JOE AND MARGARET KEYES<br />0:30 - AVENUE BAR<br />0:35 - SEARS STORE<br />1:10 - SAINT PATRICK'S GRADE SCHOOL<br /><br />[BEGIN RECORDING TENNEY-012]<br /><br />Interviewer: Ok, today is May 19, Sunday. We're at Tenney Park Century Celebration. My name is Carol Griskavich, and you are?<br /><br />Narrator: My name is Suzanne Keyes Rybeck<br /><br />Interviewer: Would you spell your last name?<br /><br />Narrator: Yes, Keyes, K-E-Y-E-S, and then Rybeck, R-Y-B, as in boy, E-C-K.<br /><br />Interviewer: Right, so Suzanne, um, what's your involvement with the Park? Past and present?<br /><br />Narrator: Uh, my involvement in Tenney-Lapham is such that, I live at 408 Marston Avenue, and that is my grandparents' home. I was born, my parents lived upstairs at 410 Marston Avenue when I was born and my sister was born. That was um, nineteen fifty—, my sister was born in 1950, I was born in 1952, and my brother was born in 1954. So, the home has been in our family since the late 1940's. Umm, my grandparents lived there until they passed away, and they left the home to my sister, brother, and I. And I uh, decided to live there, and was married. Had my daughter there, Nicole Rybeck, and raised her there. (LAUGHS) So, umm… <br /><br />Interviewer: Is it still, a two flat?<br /><br />Narrator: It is, it is a two flat, and I have worked at the University. I just retired, I worked there for forty-one years. And so, traditionally, I have rented the second floor to people affiliated with UW: medical students, veterinary students, graduate students. Umm, to keep that connection alive, and because when I was in school, my sister, brother and I also lived up there when we went to UW. So it sort of keeps the flow going. <br /><br />Interviewer: That's great.<br /><br />Narrator: And at one point even, as I recall. Foster Randall, who was the principal at East High School. Foster and Helen, his wife, lived at 410 Marston Avenue<br /><br />Interviewer: Wow.<br /><br />Narrator: It has a lot of history, and then [LAUGHS].<br /><br />Interviewer: [LAUGHS] So, uh, growing up here—<br /><br />Narrator: Mhmm<br /><br />Interviewer: I'm guessing that you've been to this park a lot.<br /><br />Narrator: I consider this park part of my yard. And I think a lot of people who have lived on Marston over the years, uh, grow to love the park. And that's why many people live in their same homes for many, many years, because of that love. When I was young, and back in the fifties, there used to be playground activities in the park. There was croquet, basket weaving, gimp bracelets, a bike parade. And there was a great big tree that was so wonderful, that uh, we could all climb in. And that sometimes, it was a pirate ship, but other times it was an airplane, back when they had the propeller planes [LAUGHS)]. We used our imaginations and it was very fun. And there was a big swing set for the bigger kids and there were teeter-totters, and a tilt-a-whirl, and little swings for the smaller kids. Little cage swings. And a sandbox. And, we literally spent our days in the park growing up, if we weren't at the beach. Where we went to have swimming lessons, and meet our friends. And back, in the fifties and sixties there was a high-dive at the beach. My brother was reminding me of this this afternoon when I called and asked him some questions. So it was outside of the ropes and only if you were a strong swimmer could you go to the high dive. So—<br /><br />Interviewer: I see. And, with your daughter, then, the next generation growing up in this neighborhood, did she have similar opportunities, and, like, spend a similar amount of time in the Park as an extension of the yard?<br /><br />Narrator: I would say that the bulk of her time that she spent in the Park, she did a lot of summer activities with friends. The art cart used to come around when she was younger. And we appreciated that. And the ice cream truck, whenever you heard the jingle-jangle, I always kept a change jar near the front door, so whoever was at the house could grab money and run out and get some ice cream. When she was growing up, the bulk of her time spent, ah, was skating. She took, she was a wonderful skater, her friends skated, and um, in fact, when I was younger, we all skated in the Park. I mean it was what we did in the winter. And the channel on the Lagoon was much narrower then, so, yes, she spent a lot of time doing that with all her friends. I mean it was just, really, a social, social place to be. <br /><br />Interviewer: And, given that you have a, you know, long history in the neighborhood [LAUGHS]<br /><br />Narrator: [LAUGHS]<br /><br />Interviewer: We won't put that in the transcript<br /><br />Narrator: Thank you.<br /><br />Interviewer: What changes have you seen in the neighborhood over time?<br /><br />Narrator: Ok, so, over time. When I was younger there were a lot of children. There were a lot of families, there were a lot of children. As time went on, those families moved out and it went, the neighborhood went through a transition. When I came back and owned the house, and that was in 1985. The neighborhood was changing again, and more children were coming back, and families were coming back, so I did see that resurgence. And then, as my daughter grew up, there were a number of other young people on the block her same age. So they would walk to school together, and I have to, I have to say this, that our house was the school bus stop. Because we had a glassed in front porch, and it could accommodate children in all types of weather and they could see the bus coming, and the driver knew to stop. So he would stop and they would go running out with their violins and, and their backpacks and the door had a lock on it, so, they felt secure there after school coming for their parents to pick them up. And a lot of them just ended up staying [LAUGHS]. And we had snack and a good time, so.<br /><br />Interviewer: Ok, well is there anything else you'd like to add?<br /><br />Narrator: Umm, [PAUSE] I think that it's a wonderful place to live, and I'm glad a lot of families are coming back, um, so. <br /><br />Interviewer: Excellent.<br /><br />[END RECORDING – TENNEY-012]<br /><br /><br />[BEGIN RECORDING – TENNEY-012A]<br /><br />Interviewer: This is Carol Griskavich, May 19, Tenney Park Century Celebration. <br /><br />Narrator: Yes, I'm Suzanne Keyes Rybeck. R-Y-B, as in boy, E-C-K. And I grew up on Marston <br />Avenue. Umm, and I lived in my grandparents' house, which was previously owned by Joe and Margaret Keyes, and they, uh, owned the Avenue Bar. My grandfather started the Avenue Bar on East Washington Avenue, back when it was just a place where people from the Sears store crossed the street, which is now the bus station, would come for lunch and after work and so he had the bar, and my grandmother used to make sandwiches, and things that, it was a family affair. Everyone helped out and he had a used car lot next door to it where the parking lot is now a Christmas tree lot at Christmas time, and he could walk to work or drive to work, and when I went to Saint Patrick's grade school on East Washington, which is now the Salvation Army, when the kids would walk home, my grandfather would be outside of the bar. And we would go in and have a Coca-Cola after school [LAUGHS], so.<br /><br />Interviewer: Then, that's really, thank you.<br /><br />[END RECORDING - TENNEY-012A]
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INDEX:<br /><br />00:27—OLD TENNEY PARK PLAYGROUND<br />01:20—SUNSETS AT TENNEY PARK<br />01:54—CHANGING DEMOGRAPHICS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD<br /><br />[START OF RECORDING]<br /><br />Interviewer: Hi there, this is Joe Orman on May 19, 2019, and I am here with<br /><br />Narrator: Patty Prime, P-A-T-T-Y P-R-I-M-E<br /><br />Interviewer: Great, and today we are going to be talking about, uh, Tenney Park, and the Tenney-Lapham neighborhood, and I was wondering if you could sort of share one of your favorite stories or maybe you have a memory that you really like about this park?<br /><br />Narrator: Um, one of my favorite memories of the park is the playground--the old playground that was here when I first moved in. They had a slide in the park that looked extremely dangerous. We called it the roller-slide and it was made of rollers. And you would--<br /><br />Interviewer: Yeah!<br /><br />Narrator: --roll it down it and it just looked like it was guaranteed to squeeze little children’s fingers and toes. And, uh, and I don’t know of that ever happening, but, um, that slide went away. They’re a lot more conscious of safety these days, so we have a very safe playground now. But that was one of my memories, of bringing my kids over here for the roller slide, and they’d beeline straight for the slide.<br /><br />Interviewer: Did you--so your kids never got hurt from it or anything like that?<br /><br />Narrator: No, not from that, no [LAUGHS] but they got in a lot of other accidents. <br /><br />Interviewer: So do you remember, uh, any favorite winter or summer activities that you had in the park?<br /><br />Narrator: Um, I think probably the--one of my favorite memories is walking. I would like to walk from my house down to the end of the breakwater at sunset. Everybody loves to do that. And I would bring my daughter on my bike, and then we’d bike down to the other end of the river and then back again and watch the sun--finish watching the sunset. It was just a nice little ritual. <br /><br />Interviewer: That’s wonderful, so, are, do you still live in this neighborhood? <br /><br />Narrator: Yes, I do.<br /><br />Interviewer: Oh, uh, how long have you lived here then?<br /><br />Narrator: I’ve lived here since 1984. Uh, we bought a house on Sydney Street in 1984, and, there were, I would guess about one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine children living on Sydney street at that time and I, I don’t know how many houses, like forty or fifty houses. So it was really a neighborhood of people who had lived there a really long time, and, um, obviously that’s decades ago--<br /><br />Interviewer: Right--<br /><br />Narrator: --and as the decades went on so many families came--moved into the neighborhood. We thought we could pretty much populate an elementary school right at the end of our street [NARRATOR AND INTERVIEWER LAUGH] because there were so many kids there. And the whole neighborhood has changed like that. It’s become a place not where people are moving away from but where people move to. And that’s kind of what we’re celebrating today, with our century celebration is, you know, like 100 years of this neighborhood, and it just keeps getting better<br /><br />Interviewer: That’s great, that’s really great to hear, OK<br /><br />[END OF RECORDING]
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INDEX<br />0:21, 1:40 - TENNEY PARK NEIGHBORHOOD<br />0:37 - BABYSITTING COOPERATIVE<br />0:51 - NEIGHBORHOOD WOMEN'S GROUP<br />1:20 - TENNEY PARK ACTIVITIES<br />3:40 - SAND STREETS<br />[START OF RECORDING]<br /><br />INTERVIEWER: It's May 19, we are at the Tenney Park Century Celebration at the Tenney Park shelter. This is Carol Griskavich and we are joined by— <br /><br />NARRATOR: Jane Qualle. Q-U-A-L-L-E.<br /><br />INTERVIEWER: Jane, thank you for joining us. So, what is your connection to Tenney Park and the neighborhood?<br /><br />NARRATOR: We had the pleasure, back in 1979, of]buying our house at 1142 Elizabeth Street. And, I'm gonna get emotional because I loved living there. My son at the time was about nine months old and it was just an amazing neighborhood because we had a babysitting co-op. And there were about twenty families in the co-op so we got to know many, many of the neighbors and all the kids in the neighborhood and everybody was just absolutely friendly, helpful, there's always, also, like a women's group, that every now and again would get together and we could do chit-chat or if you wanted to work on cross-stitch or whatever it's just kind of a neat way for women to gather and get together. <br /><br />I used to work in the Legislature and when my son was little I'd walk downtown to stop in and say hi to my friends and one day I came home and one of my neighbors said, "Where you been?", and I said, "oh, we just walked downtown," and she goes, "All that way?" And to me, a mile is nothing, so it was kind of surprising. <br /><br />Um, used to go swimming at the beach all the time, and ice skating at the ice skating rink and just nothing, nothing but fond, fond memories of living in this neighborhood. We moved to the north side, which is great, but it's not the personal connection that the Tenney-Lapham neighborhood has with proximity to your neighbors and what have you. <br /><br />So, um, I did have—I'm a retired nurse, and I had a patient come into the clinic one day with her daughter and when I had finished my assessment with my patient, the daughter said, "You look familiar to me," and I said, "Well what's your name?" and she told me. And as it turns out, it's the family that we bought our house on Elizabeth Street from, and her comment was, "Well that's funny, I remember we sold the house to a young couple." Well, that new baby that we had when we moved in was, at that time, like thirty-five years old and I said, "Yes, we were a young couple back in the day!" <br /><br />And then, one other story about living in the neighborhood was, my husband's a retired letter carrier, and for a couple years, he actually delivered the route that we lived on. And so, he would come home for lunch and park his jeep in the driveway. And we had a neighbor that was fairly new to the neighborhood and he went to deliver her mail, and she came out and she went, "(gasps), it's you!" and he said, "Yeah," and she said, "Oh, thank goodness, I thought all this time Jane was having an affair with the mailman because he would park his jeep in our driveway." <br /><br />And so, but anyway that's kind of the connection and unfortunately—well, fortunately for my family—I was an at-home mom. And so we only had one income, and being a house built in 1917, it always needed work done. And we were going to need a new roof, and we were going to need a new furnace, and we had painted this very tall, two-story house once and didn't really want to have to paint it again, and made the decision that we needed to move on. And for years and years after I moved on , I used to dream about MY house, and it would be the same on the outside and I would freak out, "What did you do to MY house?" <br /><br />And it wasn't just the house, it was the neighbors, it was the energy of the neighborhood. We had an older lady who lived next door, and she was in her eighties. And she actually grew up in a house on the corner of Few and Elizabeth, and then when she married she got the house next door. And, she would talk about back in the day, when the men would get paid, and the streets were all sand back in the day, and that the men would go out and spend their paycheck and get drunk, and then come home, and their feet would be burning on the hot sand, and everything. And just, like, stories of what it was like back in the day before, you know, everything got more developed and stuff. But, um, just the proximity to anything, really. And the neighbors, and just the character of the neighborhood is just something that I truly, truly miss.<br /><br />INTERVIEWER: How do you feel, or how do you perceive that the neighborhood has changed or stayed the same over the years?<br /><br />NARRATOR: Um, it appears to have mostly stayed the same. The one major change that I've noticed, is I could not afford to live in this neighborhood anymore. The house that we sold for $58,000 is now worth over $300,000 and the taxes were like seven or eight thousand dollars. And I just can't afford, I'm retired and I can't afford to pay that kind of tax. It's hard enough paying the taxes where I live. But essentially the neighborhood seems like there's still a lot of children, a lot of families, and um, a lot of good energy in this neighborhood.<br /><br />INTERVIEWER: That's great. Do you have anything else you want to add or any stories?<br /><br />NARRATOR: Umm, I think that's pretty much it. I was very, very fortunate to have found that house and I miss it dearly. I miss the neighborhood.<br /><br />INTERVIEWER: Thank you so much.<br /><br />NARRATOR: You're welcome.<br /><br />INTERVIEWER: We really appreciate it.<br /><br />[END OF RECORDING]
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Tenney Park celebration, Jane Qualle, 2019
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Neighborhoods--United States
Parks
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Qualle, Jane
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Griskavich, Carol
Skarlupka, Joe
Foy, Briony
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2019-05-19
2020-15-13
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A short story about Tenney Park and the Tenney-Lapham neighborhood, told by Jane Qualle.
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Madison, Wisconsin
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en
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tenney-014
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https://omeka.madisonpubliclibrary.org/files/original/96b3eb4a81aea97d2f4af147a0d10259.mp3
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INDEX<br />0:34 - LAPHAM SCHOOL<br />0:47 - MARQUETTE SCHOOL<br />0:20, 1:09 - END OF YEAR CANOE/BOAT TRIP ON YAHARA RIVER<br />1:30 - YAHARA RIVER<br />1:42 - OVENS OF BRITTANY<br />2:20 - TENNEY NURSERY & PARENT CENTER<br />4:10 - BABYSITTING COOPERATIVE<br />4:58 - BLUE COLLAR RESIDENTS<br />6:30 - THREE-HOLE OUTHOUSE<br />8:30 - FARMERS<br />10:40 - CIRCUS TRAIN<br />11:40 - TENNEY PARK ACTIVITIES<br /><br />[START OF RECORDING]<br /><br /><br />I: I’m Joe Orman, it is May 19, 2019, and I am here with: <br /><br />N1: Tom Schmidt, S-C-H-M-I-D-T.<br /><br />N2: Jean Huxxman. H-U-X-M- A-N-N.<br /><br />N3: Steve Huxmann. H-U-X-M- A-N-N.<br /><br />I: Ok, now I was told that you had a story to share about taking your kids to school in canoes? <br /><br />N2: That’s right… You wanna hear that, right? <br /><br />I: Yes, I would to hear that, yes. <br /><br />N1: You guys start… <br /><br />N2: Ok, so Lapham School…closed for ten years. <br /><br />I: Yes. <br /><br />N2: And our oldest son went to Lapham School for Kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd grade. And then— the school closed. And so, all of the—Tenney neighborhood kids… had to move over to Marquette School. And people were not real happy about that [LAUGHS] at all. But we decided, the first year that they went over to Marquette, we thought, well we weren’t happy about the fact that they’d been there all year, we’d do something fun at the end of the year. So, we decided to meet—neighborhood people—here at the Yahara River, and get into canoes, and we just had an inflatable rowboat at the time. And so, we met early in the morning, and took our kids down the river to Marquette School on the last day of school. And then they climbed up the rocks, and went into the school. And then we went out for donuts, we went out to Ovens of Brittany or somewhere for snacks… <br /><br />N1: Yeah… Yeah… Jean and Steve set this all up. And they had that uh, inflatable, uh raft, rowboat, whatever.<br /><br />N2 [INTERUPTING]: Yeah… [UNSURE OF BRAND] Raft. <br /><br />N1: And then uh, I had uh, an aluminum canoe,<br /><br />N2: Yeah.<br /><br />N1: And uh, I took my daughter, Megan. And, I think Ben maybe was, he was pretty little, but he probably was there [ASKING N2]. Was Jeffery along? <br /><br />N2: Yeah.<br /><br />N1: Yeah. Okay.<br /><br />N2: Well, let’s see now: Jeffery was at the Tenney Nursery. <br /><br />N1: Ok. <br /><br />N2: So…<br /><br />N1: Yeah I don’t know if my s-<br /><br />N2 [INTERRUPTING]: They might have gone along, but they didn’t go into the school. [N1 TALKING OVER]<br /><br />N1: Yeah, yeah, but it was—it was a lot of fun! <br /><br />N2: And then, more and more people started doing it. And so we kept up the tradition every year. Um…<br /><br />N1: Well until—<br /><br />N2: Until they graduated from… 5th grade, Middle School. <br /><br />N1 [OVER THE LAST SENTENCE]: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, and—and I<br /><br />N2 [INTERRUPTING]: Until the YOUNGER kids graduated from Middle School. <br /><br />N1: And I think it’s still going on.<br /><br />N2: And then it did continue with other families after that. I don’t know if it’s still going on… But maybe, yeah. <br /><br />I: That’s fantastic. <br /><br />N1: Oh I think so. <br /><br />N2: Yeah. <br /><br />N1: I think so and, and the fact that you, you’ve got this canoe thing going on today. <br /><br />I: Right. <br /><br />N1: And the gentleman who set that [canoes in Pond event at Century Celebration] up, Tony Stern [sp?],<br /><br />N2: Oh he was one of the initial—people that got taken down the river. <br /><br />N1: Yeah he was one of the kids that was a part of all that. <br /><br />I: What were uh, what were uh people’s reactions like the first year that you did this? Like did— were there people actually like at the school at that time that could see you uh take—like bring that kids up to the rocks, er? <br /><br />N1: No… I don’t think so—<br /><br />N3: No, it was just something we that we did. <br /><br />N1: Well…<br /><br />N1: Yeah! <br /><br />N3: No—no fanfare, no media<br /><br />[I, N1, N2, N3 LAUGHS]<br /><br />N1: Right.<br /><br />N2: No Facebook posts [GROUP LAUGHS]<br /><br />N1: And I’m pretty sure like Jean said we went somewhere to get something. <br /><br />N2: We just took pictures, I mean the parents took pictures. <br /><br />N1: Yeah, yeah. <br /><br />I [At the same time]: Right right right. <br /><br />N2: And the kids thought it was fun.<br /><br />N1: Yeah. <br /><br />N2: A fun way to get to school. <br /><br />N1: Yeah, it was, it was great [N1, N2, I LAUGHS]. <br /><br />N1: Yeah. <br /><br />I: That sounds wonderful. So how long have you all been in the neighborhood? <br /><br />N1: Well—I… My… wife and I, moved in in 1971. <br /><br />I: Mhm. <br /><br />N1: And we’re still in the same house that we bought in 1971. And a little aside for that is: our house at that time cost $15,500. <br /><br />N2: Oooo. <br /><br />N1: So, it was uh, a different time. <br /><br />N1: Yeah, its—<br /><br />N2: And we moved in 1977…from Sherman Terrace just on the other side of the river to Few Street. And we’re in the same house too, since then. <br /><br />N1: And we, we all got to know each other because<br /><br />N2: Oh yeah! We can talk about that. <br /><br />N1: The neighborhood—<br /><br />N2: We had a babysitting co-op. <br /><br />N1: Yeah, a babysitting co-op. <br /><br />I: Really? <br /><br />N1: Yeah, and so we had what? Maybe 20 families? To start off? <br /><br />N3: At least a dozen, <br /><br />N2: At least twenty…yeah.<br /><br />N3: At least a dozen, I think. I don’t know if it was twenty. <br /><br />N1: Yeah… Anyway, in the teens. <br /><br />N3: Yeah…<br /><br />N1: And a lot of us, uh, are still in the neighborhood… <br /><br />N2 and N3: Mhm. <br /><br />N1: And a lot of us are—well we’re all friends yet. <br /><br />I: Great…<br /><br />N1: Not, not everyone in the co-op, I don’t mean that, but I mean most of our real close group is still together. <br /><br />N2: Yeah, still— <br /><br />N1: And married! <br /><br />N2: Yeah… and still married [CHUCKLES].<br /><br />I: [LAUGHS] That’s impressive— <br /><br />N1: Which in itself is unbelievable!<br /><br />I: Wow… That’s really fantastic. <br /><br />N1: Yeah… It’s a good, well we like the neighborhood. Otherwise we would have left. <br /><br />N2: The neighbor was sort of—we were the young families moving in, at that time. And we all just got to know each other.<br /><br />N1: Yeah.<br /><br />N2: And we’ve stayed and now we’re the old families. <br /><br />[I LAUGHS]<br /><br />N1: Yeah, that’s right. <br /><br />I2: May I ask—who were the old families when you were the young families? <br /><br />N2: Yeah—the old families were…. Older people, lots of people who did, like tradesman work like—<br /><br />N1: Yeah. <br /><br />N2: Our house was owned by a roofer… And the guy next door did [ASKING N3] insulating? <br /><br />N3: Mhm. <br /><br />N2: That kind of job. <br /><br />N1: Concrete work…<br /><br />N2: Plumbers… And uhm… they moved out, we moved in. Some of them didn’t—weren’t happy that we were all moving in. [N2 and N2 LAUGH]. We’re trying to be happier that the younger people are moving in now. [N2. N3, I, and I2 LAUGH] Than they were, but. <br /><br />I: Yeah… <br /><br />N1: The, the woman, that lived next door to us, we have a shared driveway—Mrs. Schneider [sp?] was her name. And Mrs. Schneider grew up in the house that was, [that] we shared the driveway with. And her father had built that house. And I—I think that our house was, I don’t know if our house was there at that time or not, but, I think our house was 1907, I think. Uh, there’s some—we’re not exactly sure about the actual date. Uhm, but uhm… Can I, can I tell a quick story about our neighbor—I don’t wanna keep…<br /><br />I: Yeah no, no, please do.<br /><br />N1: Ok, so, uh behind us, uh… I live at 1127 Gorham.<br /><br />I: Mhm.<br /><br />N1: And behind us—just little bit at an angle from us—was a family, that had lived there for quite some time. And they had a old outhouse on their property- a three hole outhouse.<br /><br />N2: Mmm. <br /><br />N3: [WHISTLES]<br /><br />N1: OK? Now, some people don’t understand how outhouses work. But they, that’s not 3 on top of each other, that’s 3 sideways. [I2 laughs]<br /><br />I: Right, right. <br /><br />N3: A luxury, a luxury<br /><br />I: Luxury, a luxury.<br /><br />N1: Right, a luxury<br /><br />I2: I’d say so. <br /><br />N1: YIf I had friends over [I2 LAUGHS]<br /><br />I: Yeah. <br /><br />[N2 and N3 CHUCKLE]<br /><br />N1: And, so, a client of mine—cuz’ I was a carpenter… <br /><br />I: Mhm. <br /><br />N1: Uh… A client of mine, said that her father… wanted that outhouse. And they—they had a cottage on Lake Mendota.<br /><br />I: OK. <br /><br />N1: And so, they wanted that outhouse moved, to their property on Lake Mendota [GROUP BEGINS TO LAUGH].<br /><br />N1: And so they—this is horse and wagon time. Y’know? <br /><br />I: Right right right right…<br /><br />N1: So they brought this wagon over and they loaded this outhouse onto the wagon. And this man and his wife, who wanted the outhouse, came over together on the wagon, but when they left with the outhouse, it was the owner of the outhouse, and the new owner of the outhouse, and she needed a place to sit. And so, she sat in the outhouse, on the way home. And I believe that it was on Baldwin Street. <br /><br />I: OK.<br /><br />N1 [CONTINUING]: I may not be exactly sure about this, but the door swung open. [LAUGHTER] And one of her friends was walking, by, or whatever. And so, she waved at that person [GROUP LAUGHS]. And away they went. <br /><br />I2: As you do.<br /><br />I: As you do, yes. <br /><br />N1: As you do. And so, this story was relayted to me by the daughter of this man. And uh… I’m assuming it’s true. But in any event. <br /><br />I2: Wow.<br /><br />I: That’s fantastic. <br /><br />N1: The other thing that was happening in the neighborhood when we moved in, was they had—y’know it was still uh, basically Madison was a part of a farm community.<br /><br />I: Right…<br /><br />N1: And so, we would have, down Gorham Street, we would have tractors, and we would even have a combine—it’s a large machine farm machine…<br /><br />I: Mhm. <br /><br />N1: Going down, uh, Gorham Street. And the only thing I could speculate was: There was a brother on one side of Madison who had a farm, and there was another brother on the other side of Madison [GROUP BEGINS TO CHUCKLE].<br /><br />I: [LAUGHING] Sure, sure. <br /><br />N1: And the combine’s a very expensive item<br /><br />I: Right… <br /><br />N1: And they were sharing this combine. But it would always be on a Sunday morning. <br /><br />N2: Mmm! <br /><br />N1: Because, very little traffic. [GROUP MURMURING]<br /><br />I: Just when you’re trying to sleep yeah. <br /><br />N1: Well no, no no no. It wasn’t like it was that loud anyways or-<br /><br />I: Mhm.<br /><br />N1: No, it was—it was great actually. I would love for that day to happen again. <br /><br />I2: Yeah! <br /><br />N1: When a combine would go down Gorham Street. <br /><br />N2: Yeah! <br /><br />I2: That would be nice to happen at the Centennial, to have a combine around.<br /><br />N1: Wouldn’t that be something? [I2 LAUGHS]<br /><br />N3: Sure.<br /><br />[INAUDIBLE UNTIL 9:37]<br /><br />N3: Well I think I should tell the story about the deer in the woods [INAUDIBLE].<br /><br />I: Yeah…<br /><br />N3: We lived, before we moved into this neighborhood on North Few street, we lived just across the river, at a housing development that was built after WWII called Sherman Terrace. <br /><br />N2: Mhm. <br /><br />I: Great.<br /><br />N3: And were there until we had our second child, or shortly after. But in that building, the building we were in which was #13, on the other side was just a big, open field. There was Camelot, and all that other housing development—didn’t exist. And there were, and there was kind of a woods there. And from time-to-time we would find whitetail deer, in that woods. <br /><br />I: Yep. <br /><br />N1: They would follow the railroad tracks from up north, down into the city, cross the street, and then forage in the forest, and, and then go back [N1 CHUCKLES]. So we had, we had deer next to our building, in Madison. <br /><br />N2: And then we had and then we had that circus train that came and stopped.<br /><br />N3: Oh that’s right! <br /><br />N2: Circus train used to go once a year from Baraboo to Milwaukee.<br /><br />I2: Mhm.<br /><br />N2: And it would stop, right on Fordem Avenue. And then the whole neighborhood could come and walk along.<br /><br />N3: See animals! <br /><br />N2: See all the circus trains. <br /><br />N1: Yeah! Train cars up close.<br /><br />N3: They’d flip open the steam organ, and someone would play the <br /><br />N2 and N3 [TOGETHER]: Calliope. <br /><br />I: That’s incredible.<br /><br />I2: It would stop where the train yard is now? <br /><br />N2 and N3: Yes. <br /><br />I2: Ohhh. Ok.<br /><br />N2: Yeah, and so from our apartment you could hear it and see it and then know, “Now it’s time to go out.” <br /><br />[LAUGHS]<br /><br />I: That’s incredible.<br /><br />N1: Yeah anyway it’s a good—it’s a good neighborhood. <br /><br />I: Yeah. <br /><br />I2: Yeah, clearly. <br /><br />I: Absolutely. <br /><br />[General sounds of agreement]<br /><br />N1: I don’t know if I’ve got anything else…<br /><br />N3: We’ll think of something as soon as we walk through that door. <br /><br />[General sounds of agreement]<br /><br />N2: Do you have any questions other questions?<br /><br />I2: We’re here all day! <br /><br />I: Yeah, we’re here all day if you have more stories or…<br /><br />[INDECIPHERABLE]<br /><br />I2: I mean, if you have anything specific about… Tenney Park err… Y’know, bringing your kids here… <br /><br />N2: Well everybody brought their kids here. <br /><br />N3: Yeah. <br /><br />N2: And then our kids brought themselves here. They would go skating after school. <br /><br />N3: Yeah, that was back in the day when the parents didn’t necessarily…<br /><br />I: Mhm. <br /><br />N3: Go with the kids.<br /><br />N1: Yeah.<br /><br />N3: “We’re going to the park.” “OK”. <br /><br />N2: Yeah they kids would- would meet and play games.<br /><br />N1: Yeah. <br /><br />N2: Well, hockey.<br /><br />N1: Oh yeah. Hockey and… baseball…<br /><br />N2: Yeah. <br /><br />N1: And one of the kids that our kids hung around with, Tony Stern [sp?]? He’s the one that’s setting up this canoe race on the pond right now. <br /><br />I: Mhm. <br /><br />I2: Oh wonderful.<br /><br />N1: Alright, uhm, the kids always used to be able to tell when Spring was here because that’s when Tony, would fall through the ice on the lagoon. <br /><br />[GROUP LAUGHS]<br /><br />N1: And I mean it happened! <br /><br />N2: Yeah! <br /><br />N1: It happened more than once. So, they always knew when Spring was here when Tony would fall through the ice. <br /><br />[GROUP LAUGHS]<br /><br />N1: Well I don’t know; I don’t have anything else. <br /><br />I2: Like his own Groundhog’s Day. <br /><br />N2: Yeah. <br /><br />N3: Oh! When our kids were real little, we would come down to the lake—down to Tenney Park—<br /><br />I: Mhm.<br /><br />N3: Where the swimming beach is. And the water was clear.<br /><br />N2 and N1: Oh, yeah. <br /><br />N3: And we had noooo, no hesitation about letting the kids play in the water, swim in the water.<br /><br />N2: They gave swimming lessons over there. <br /><br />N3: They gave swimming lessons there. You could see to the bottom of the lake there wasn’t any algae or anything like that. And y’know it sounds like I’m telling an old-timer story from the 1800’s or something, but, it wasn’t that long ago! <br /><br />I: Right. Right. <br /><br />N3: It wasn’t that long ago! <br /><br />N1: Yeah. <br /><br />N3: And then, and then the concession stand there sold hotdogs, and ice cream, and y’know nothing gets…I don’t think anything gets sold there anymore. So that was, that became kind of a destination place for the kids. They could come down and get a popsicle or an ice cream bar in the summertime and go swimming with their friends and come home and, no danger. <br /><br />N2: Yeah.<br /><br />N1: Yeah. <br /><br />I: Yeah. Well that’s fantastic. <br /><br />N3: Yep, that gives you something to work on huh? <br /><br />I: Oh yeah, absolutely, thank you for sharing. <br /><br /><br />[END OF RECORDING]
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Tenney Park celebration, Thomas Schmidt, Jean Huxmann, Steve Huxmann, 2019
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Neighborhoods--United States
Parks
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Copyright 2019, Thomas Schmidt, Jean Huxmann, Steve Huxmann, and Madison Public Library. All rights reserved. For more information, contact Madison Public Library.
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Schmidt, Thomas
Huxmann, Jean
Huxmann, Steve
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Orman, Joseph
Foy, Briony
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2019-05-19
2020-05-14
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A short story about Tenney Park and the Tenney-Lapham neighborhood, told by Thomas Schmidt, Jean Huxmann, and Steve Huxmann.
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Madison, Wisconsin
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en
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tenney-011
tenney
tenney-011
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INDEX<br />0:25 - TENNEY NURSERY AND PARENT CENTER<br />0:30, 4:50, 9:00 - LAPHAM SCHOOL<br />3:05 - PARENT COOPERATIVE<br />1:30 - CITY FUNDING<br />2:40, 6:49 - NURSERY FURNISHINGS<br />6:48 - TEACHER'S WORKSHOP<br />7:00, 11:30 - RECYCLING MATERIALS<br />11:30 - SANTA'S WORKSHOP FOR PARENTS<br /><br />[START OF RECORDING]<br /><br />Interviewer: This is Carol Griskavich. It’s May 19th 2019. We’re at the Tenney Park Century Celebration and we’re joined by – <br /><br />Narrator 1: Jean Huxmann<br /><br />Narrator 2: Steve Huxmann<br /><br />Narrator 3: Nancy Daly, D-A-L-Y.<br /><br />Narrator 4: Tom Schmidt.<br /><br />Interviewer: All right. I understand you all would all like to talk about the uh, the evolution of the Tenney Nursery and Parent Center. Fantastic, take it away.<br /><br />Narrator 3: Well, Lapham School was closing after the spring of 1979 and I remember that it was during that year that all the sort of talk and discussion and trying to keep the school open and several people approached me and said, “Well if we can’t have aN Elementary school, let’s have a Nursery school.” <br /><br />And I was teaching out of the city at that point, in London, Wisconsin actually, and people said you know, “Let’s have a nursery school.” And before we knew it there was a small group of us including Jean who were meeting quite regularly to talk about, how would we do this, what would it look like, could we really do it. So we just kept meeting and it just kind of slid right into place. [There were] lots of hiccups – lots of, lots of good wishes, lots of um, you know I remember signing the lease for the space for the first year before we had children enrolled before we knew if we’d have any money to pay the lease. <br /><br />And then I think it was maybe a week or two before I had a call from – somebody, and I can’t remember who at the moment – but who called and said “Well you know there’s this funding that you could apply for which will pay for programs to go into the Lapham School building so that it stays a vibrant, active building. Would you like to be included?” And I said, “Well, sure.” And next thing we knEw our money – our lease was paid for the first year. I was like “Okay, that was really nice.” I mean – <br /><br />[LAUGHTER FROM ALL] <br /><br />So we just had a lot of—a lot of good things happen. You know, from the beginning.<br /><br />Interviewer: And is that where it was located—<br /><br />Narrator 3: Yes.<br /><br />Interviewer – in the Lapham School?<br /><br />Narrator 3: We started out in room 112 in the Lapham School building. And that was our first class. First class room. We had um, I can’t remember how many—<br /><br />Narrator 1: It was the former kindergarten room. <br /><br />Narrator 3: Yes.<br /><br />Narrator 1: Yeah.<br /><br />Narrator 3: Yup, room 112 and 110 were the first former kindergarten rooms, we started out with room 112. We had that for the first several years. And actually Steve is here and Tom is here because they were, one person—one other person, Phil Hodap [sp?], was also part of the team. Who helped to build sort of a, a play structure in the classroom. <br /><br />So it was really a neighborhood team effort by a lot of people who were, you know, helping to get this going. <br /><br />I remember a bake sale early on, I remember you know a lot of kind of spreading the word, getting out there for starting this school. And we did it. And you know we had a full class and we had... I taught – I think Jean came in and subbed once in a while to help out. It was started as a parent cooperative nursery school. So there were parents [who] helped in the classroom on a rotating basis. So every parent, I can’t say exactly at that time but it might have been five or six times, during the school year seven times, that they would come in and help out. And bring a snack for the kids. And just participate. You know, as kind of an assistant teacher. So they were there and the model has continued and kind of fluctuated and you know, in different ways. But the school continues to this day. <br /><br />So we had room 112 for the first three years – and just a morning class to start with. The second year we were opened, we opened in the fall then of 1979, and the following year – actually that spring of 1980 we hired another teacher Carrie Strode [sp?], with whom I’m still good friends and [I] see her from time to time. She no longer lives in Madison. So I still see her, and we started an afternoon class. So we really were there all day every day. We also started - th classes ran Monday through Thursday and we had a Friday morning play group time for children, zero to three year olds. <br /><br />So not only did it fill a need in the neighborhood of just getting people together, but it also kind of fed into our incoming classes every year because parents would come with their youngest children – two year olds, one year olds. You know, the real little ones. <br />They would come, and it was just a natural progression of they would sign up for nursery school once their kids turned three. So like: “well of course that’s where they’re going. And we already know all of these people and we know the teachers, we know the space, and it feels comfortable.” So that’s where we were. <br /><br />It was also exciting to be a part of the whole Lapham building because you know Tom’s wife Lynne [sp?] was working on another project in the building at the time. But the whole building was filled with a variety of non-profit programs. So it was just fun to be a part of, you know—people were disappointed that school closed but it remained opened as a vibrant, you know, piece of the community. And different programs, serving the community and it was just fun to be a part of that energy and enthusiasm. So. <br /><br />Interviewer: Did children come to it from outside of the neighborhood at all? Did it build such a reputation that it attracted—<br /><br />Narrator 3: Um<br /><br />Interviewer: --all over the east side or?<br /><br />Narrator 3: I think, I think—<br /><br />Interviewer: There was just plenty of kids—<br /><br />Narrator 3: There were a lot of kids, well there were a lot from the Tenney Lapham neighborhood but there were, I remember several children who lived closer to East High School and then there were children who lived in the Marquette neighborhood, so I can’t say we had any west side kids at that point but, but certainly you know, and kids further north. Um, Sherman Avenue, Maple Bluff. <br /><br />So it – it really expanded and so for the first three years I believe we had room 112 and then we were able to expand into room 110 which ad joined it. There was a small little office, storage unit, in between. And we were able to expand to that room. <br /><br />And Tom and everybody came back again, built another structure. We had a little riding ring and a tower and a big sort of pillow pit and playhouse area so a variety of things built that and that was the space for our infant toddler program. Actually not infants, but for our toddler program. So we a two year old class for the first time and all the toddler time program and parent-child program happened in that room as well. So again, I believe we started out as just mornings there and then the next year we added an afternoon class of three year olds. <br /><br />Narrator 1: You should talk about the chairs. The chairs that were built.<br /><br />Narrator 3: Okay. One of the themes of the school was we had very very little money to start with.<br /><br />[LAUGHTER FROM MALE NARRATOR]<br /><br />Narrator 3: Very little money so we were, we were looking for anything we could and I remember going to um, St. Vinny’s one day and finding this fabulous shelf unit that probably is still at the school now. I think it was a dollar that I paid for it. But you know, sand it down, a coat of paint, and you know – bingo. We had a really nice shelf unit. We built a lot of furniture. I had worked previously at the Teacher’s Workshop I had built a lot of furniture out of cardboard tubes from [a] packaging company on the far east side of Madison. I don’t think it’s still there but it was at the time. So we built a lot of furniture out of that. We were able to build a lot of shelf units, and Jean was referring to the chairs at the school. And we made all of the chairs out of these recycled—<br /><br />Narrator 1: Cardboard tubes.<br /><br />Narrator 3: Cardboard tubes. <br /><br />Interviewer: Wow!<br /><br />Narrator 3: And they’re sort of like, giant, you know toilet paper tubes. <br /><br />[LAUGHTER FROM MALE NARRATOR]<br /><br />Narrator 3: Only really, really sturdy. And um,<br /><br />[LAUGHTER FROM MALE NARRATOR]<br /><br />Narrator 3: And then, so we, we cut out a section of those so it still had a seat appropriate for you know, three and five year olds’ height. And then a back on the chair. We had a little handle, a little opening so that you could easily carry four chairs at a time. And then we’d lace cording around like a little spider web on the inside. And make, make cushions for those. And you know, a couple times a year one of the parents would take home all the cushions and wash them so they-<br /><br />[LAUGHTER FROM FEMALE NARRATOR]<br /><br />Narrator 3: --there would be clean cushions again.<br /><br />[LAUGHTER FROM MALE NARRATOR]<br /><br />Narrator 3: You know I mean they’re really, they were good. I ended up making some at my house for my own kids. When they were little—<br /><br />Interviewer: Yeah<br /><br />Narrator 3: --they had, they had some cushions. So a lot of things in the school, we built a lot of equipment out of—<br /><br />Narrator 1: Recycled materials.<br /><br />Narrator 3: Yup. <br /><br />Narrator 1: The teachers would shop and collect [PAUSE] things from all over.<br /><br />Narrator 3: Surplus, Yeah.<br /><br />Narrator 2: [unintelligible]<br /><br />Narrator 3: That was my job before Tenney Nursery so I was in touch with a lot of businesses around the city and and just—<br /><br />Narrator 4: And then when the school re-opened and Nancy opened another facility in the neighborhood.<br /><br />Interviewer: Oh when was that?<br /><br />Narrator 3: Well when, we were at Tenney Nursery up until, well excuse me Tenney Nursery was in the Lapham school building. And then it became apparent that—Let’s see it was the fall of 1993 I believe?<br /><br />Narrator 1: It was ten. <br /><br />Narrator 3: Well no<br /><br />Narrator 1: I think it was closed for ten years—<br /><br />Narrator 3: You’re right. Thank you, they did op—Thank you for correcting me. They, Lapham did re-open, we were in the building with them for a number of years. And that was fine until their space needs really outgrew. So yes. We were kind of joint partners in the building for a number of years. And that was, you know that had its ups and downs. But mostly it was a really positive experience. And um, and our kids – I remember Tenney parents. They were used to participating in the classroom, they were used to getting their newsletter every month. They were used to all of these things and a lot of them kind of took all of those expectations and just well here’s what I do, and kind of took that right into Lapham. And you know were right there to help on field trips and help with different things. And then a number of years later it was the fall of 1993, prior—the year prior to that we knew we were not going to be in that building any more. So Tenney Nursery actually ventured out and purchased the Vogol [sp?] building on East Mifflin. On the 1200 block of East Mifflin. So they purchased that building and opened up a third classroom and that’s where our program is located still today. <br /><br />Interviewer: Fantastic. And do you know how many students it serves today?<br /><br />Narrator 3: Right now today I’m not sure. When I was still there, I was there through the transition and then a number of years in the new building. When I left the new building, the year I left there were three classrooms all of which were full morning and afternoon. I don’t think it’s quite to that level at this point. But at that point I know they had morning and afternoon classes. And parent-child toddler time. And we also, landlords renting out the extra space in the building that was needed for, for children. <br /><br />Interviewer: Well, does anyone have anything else they want to add to that? This is incredible. <br /><br />Narrator 3: Well, Jean was talking before about one of her memories when we were still in the Lapham building. Those very first years. I, well we would have been in those first three years because I remember, one of the children whose father helped to do this who was in that very first class. And we used to run Santa’s Workshops for Parents, in the fall. And just you know carrying on that idea of recycling and making things for kids out of nothing and we didn’t need to spend tremendous amounts of money. And so we would, you know, parents were building doll houses and making all kinds of things. And I was talking before about what little money we had to start with and we did get the grant which Tom and Steve and Phil built the play structure for us, from that grant, and I remember somewhere we got a grant for – I think it was maybe $1800 dollars. I mean it was really a small amount of money to furnish a classroom. Which is part of the reason we thought, well. If we don’t spend any money on furniture we’re a step ahead right there. So we really were trying to get as much as we possibly could, spending almost next to nothing. And as little as we possibly could. So. <br /><br />[PAUSE]<br /><br />But it’s also been, I mean it’s really been a neighborhood kind of landmark, I think, for a lot of families. And a lot of families that I know still to this day made many of their long lasting friendships here when their children were, were pre-schoolers. And um, many of those families I still see today. So.<br /><br />Interviewer: That’s fantastic. Thank you so much for adding to this story. That’s an incredible community touchstone, it sounds like, so. Thank you very much. <br /><br />[END OF RECORDING]
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Tenney Park celebration, Thomas Schmidt, Jean Huxmann, Steve Huxmann, Nancy Daly, 2019
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Huxmann, Jean
Huxmann, Steve
Daly, Nancy
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Griskavich, Carol
Foy, Briony
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2019-05-19
2020-05-14
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A short story about Tenney Park and the Tenney-Lapham neighborhood, told by Thomas Schmidt, Jean Huxmann, Steve Huxmann, and Nancy Daly.
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Madison, Wisconsin
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INDEX:<br />00:54; 05:12: MEMORIES OF THE LAKE AND FLOODING<br />01:45; 02:49: CHANGES TO THE TENNEY-LAPHAM NEIGHBORHOOD<br />02:09: START OF ALTERNATE PARADE OF HOMES<br />03:47: MEMORIES OF TENNEY PARK<br />04:28: HUNDRED-YEAR CELEBRATION AND CHANGES TO TENNEY PARK<br /><br />[START OF RECORING]<br /><br />Interviewer: This is Joe Orman, it is May 9, 2019 and I am here with<br /><br />Narrator: Janice Schur, mostly called Jan. <br /><br />Interviewer: And, uh, how do you spell your last name again?<br /><br />Narrator: S-C-H-U-R<br /><br />Interviewer: OK, so Jan, can you tell me, uh, a little bit about, uh, you know, how long you’ve been in the neighborhood?<br /><br />Narrator: Well, I think I moved here about forty-five years ago.<br /><br />Interviewer: Ha!<br /><br />Narrator: I think it was, that would be 1974. And, I remember--I have a house on the lake--and we were going to buy a cottage. and then I saw an ad for a “Gracious, spacious, house on Lake Mendota” and I didn’t even know where Sherman Avenue was, and I thought, oh, it’s probably in Maple Bluff. But then when we got here, we found out it wasn’t in Maple Bluff and we bought it in the middle of winter.<br /><br />Interviewer: Hmh<br /><br />Narrator: And by the next summer I thought: "What a lemon, who would ever buy this house?" The lake was very bad that year. And in the first years we lived here Lake Mendota was really bad, but it’s so much better now. <br /><br />Interviewer: Uh-huh<br /><br />Narrator: And, we can, you know, just use it and it’s cleaner and it’s not so smelly, except for the flooding<br /><br />Interviewer: Right<br /><br />Narrator: Uh, We had about three floods in the time that I’ve lived here and the one time we rode our canoe down our back yard into the lake.<br /><br />Interviewer: [LAUGH]<br /><br />Narrator: And, I’m not in the flood plain, my house is just above the flood plain, but some of the houses on Sherman are. And, um, also my heating bill [LAUGH], I was--that’s another reason I thought, "who would ever buy this house?" Well, forty-five years later I’m still in the house. And the thing that I wanted to stress was how, um, the neighborhood has changed its image. When we moved here it was considered a student neighborhood. And the house I bought had been a group home.<br /><br />Interviewer: Okay.<br /><br />Narrator: And, um, so houses across the street were all student rentals and they had Coors signs in the windows, and people didn’t appreciate the value of the Tenney-Lapham neighborhood. And one of the things that happened--and I was instrumental in that, and I was the first person--we invented the Alternate Parade of Homes, which was to showcase older homes as opposed to new homes. And so the first Alternate Parade of Homes was in the Tenney-Lapham neighborhood. And at the time, um, we didn’t charge admission and we had a shuttle bus that ran over to the Marquette neighborhood. We had no idea, and it was so popular. And they sold four houses that day--<br /><br />Interviewer: Wow<br /><br />Narrator: --That were listed. We told realtors that were going to have this and to list your house and they sold four houses on that day.<br /><br />Interviewer: That’s fantastic<br /><br />Narrator: And so I think that was sort of the beginning of the turnaround of people beginning to appreciate it as a family neighborhood. And there were--there was one person named Mike Putin who lived on Johnson Street who did a lot of photography and he recently died. But he tried to encourage families to come into the neighborhood. And, um, I can’t remember, we’d have huge fights over keeping the school alive and Tenney Lapham was closed for a while. And Anne Arneson, who was on the School Board, was instrumental in getting the School Board not to sell the building.<br /><br />Interviewer: Right<br /><br />Narrator: And so now it’s reopened as an elementary school. So I think that’s the interesting part of how--and now with all of the new development and new condos, it’s become even an even more desirable place to live.<br /><br />Interviewer: That’s great. So can you tell me a little bit about memories that you have about the park, and, you know, I guess just your time spent in the park as you’ve been here for forty-five years?<br /><br />Narrator: Mostly the time I spent in the park was playing tennis.--and my whole family and my friends--and that’s primarily what I did in the park. And I think my children probably ice skated in the park, um, too, but tennis was the main feature for us in the park.<br /><br />Interviewer: That’s really great, who did you, uh, play with?<br /><br />Narrator: Uh, friends, other people in the neighborhood, my husband, my kids, and would come over usually Sunday afternoons and enjoy the tennis court so much, so.<br /><br />Interviewer: That’s really fantastic. Um, I guess, what are your thoughts about, you know, putting together this one hundred anniversary of the park, and I guess how the park’s changed over the years?<br /><br />Narrator: Well, I think it’s a good idea, I haven’t looked at too much of what they have done, I’m supposed to be sitting at the history table in a few minutes, but um, I felt so bad for them, when they had it arranged for last year, and then today it rained until exactly the time it started and they wanted to be outdoors. but I think it was wonderful that one of the women who was the main organizers lived across the street from the park for a long time, and um, so. I’ve seen a lot of the renovations of the park and when we played tennis sometimes and when they’d have everything cleared out and they were redoing the prairie and redoing the pond and spending a lot of time on the park.<br /><br />Interviewer: That’s great.<br /><br />Narrator: So I thought that was money well spent, it looks beautiful now. But last year I have pictures of it when it was all flooded, <br /><br />Interviewer: Mmm hmmm.<br /><br />Narrator: There were ducks swimming on the tennis court. <br /><br />Interviewer: [LAUGH]<br /><br />Narrator: So, that was an amazing experience.<br /><br />Interviewer: Alright, well that’s wonderful, thank you very much.<br /><br />[END OF RECORDING]
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Tenney Park celebration, Janice Schur, 2019
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Neighborhoods--United States
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Orman, Joseph
Winecke, Emily
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2019-05-19
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A short story about Tenney Park and the Tenney-Lapham neighborhood, told by Janice Schur.
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Madison, Wisconsin
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en
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tenney-004
tenney
tenney-004
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Living History Project<br />Collection: Tenney Park Century Celebration<br />Date: May 19, 2019<br />Narrator: James Shulkin<br />Length of audio: 00:08:08<br />Identifier: Tenney-018<br />Transcribed by: Brea Adams <br /><br />INDEX: <br />00:34: SHULKIN FAMILY EARLY DAYS IN MILWAUKEE<br />1:55: JOSEPH SHULKIN’S WORK FOR THE VA IN MADISON<br />4:04: MEMORY OF TENNEY PARK<br />04:47: DAVID SHULKIN’S SERVICE FOR THE VA<br />07:32: THOUGHTS ON TENNEY PARK<br /><br />[START OF RECORDING]<br /><br />Interviewer: This is Carol Restevich [sp?] today is May 19, 2019 and we are at the Tenney Park Century Celebration in Madison and we are joined today by—<br /><br />Narrator: My name is James Shulkin, S-H-U-L-K-I-N.<br /><br />Interviewer: Great, thank you for joining us, James. What is your connection to Tenney Park or the Tenney-Lapham neighborhood?<br /><br />Narrator: Sure, so my connection actually goes back a very long time. And I’ll start the story with a little bit of information about my grandparents. So my grandparents are, were, Joseph and Marion Shulkin. And both of them were Russian immigrants, they came over to Milwaukee, at the very first part of the century. They didn’t know each other then but met, um, probably in grade school or so living in the Jewish ghetto, I imagine, of Milwaukee. <br /><br />And my grandfather Joseph, his father was a junk dealer, so I know a little bit about that history in Milwaukee, but ah, clearly very uneducated people. And, although, my grandfather was in class in grade school with Golda Meir, so that’s his--one of his--claims to fame. So my grandfather was probably the first in his family to go to college, and he came here to UW-Madison and got a degree as a pharmacist in probably 1920 or so, maybe ‘23. And then he went back to Milwaukee and they had a drug store for a very long time, in the inner city of Milwaukee. Well, the drug store business wasn’t particularly very good and the story was because he didn’t really know how to run a drug store and gave away so much food and medicines for free that they couldn’t really make a go of it. <br /><br />So he applied for a job at, ah, with the federal government to be a pharmacist and he got a job here in Madison at what was then the Veteran’s Administration Hospital, which was located what is now on Northport Drive, and, I think it was then like the central--central, center facility of that area there, so that was the very first VA hospital. And of course, that predates the current veteran’s hospital down on University Avenue on campus. <br /><br />So he was the first director of pharmacy at the Veterans Administration and in order to be close to his work, because I don’t ever recall him driving a car, I think he needed to be on the bus line. And so they bought a house on Sherman Avenue right here in the neighborhood. It’s, the address of the house is 2002 Sherman Avenue. And I always remembered that number, but, I’m always heartened to see as I drive by that house still, that the same house numbers on that same little sign are still on that house, even though they bought that house, built that house, probably in 1954-55, those house numbers are still there. <br /><br />And if you know where that is, 2002 is approximately where--across the street from Bus’s Tavern, which is also, as I recall, part of that neighborhood for that many years. So my grandparents lived at 2002 Sherman Avenue for many, many years, and then he of course was moved over to the Veteran’s Hospital on University Avenue. <br /><br />My grandmother was very active in local politics, somewhat. I remember that she was always volunteering for the polling day, for the voting day. She would always help to, uh, enroll voters and make sure people got to vote. So I think, their, their background being Russian immigrants they felt very strongly about, ah protecting the rights of the individuals helping them to vote and she was very active in causes like that. <br /><br />So let’s see, my, my experience with Tenney Park though, I remember when I was probably about eight years old, she, I was visiting them, and I wanted to go fishing so she took me, allowed me to go fishing here at Tenney Park. And, the one time she did allow me to go fishing I remember falling into the river. So that’s my first memory and probably, probably best memory of Tenney Park. <br /><br />So coincidentally just some other things interesting things about my grandparent, grandparents. Joseph Shulkin had a son, two sons, my father but also my Uncle Mark. Mark became a physician and moved down to Philadelphia after meeting a beautiful young woman here on campus. And their son David became a physician also. And David did very well in terms of hospital administration and running hospitals and large systems and so Joseph Shulkin’s grandson, David, became the Undersecretary for Medical Affairs at the Veteran’s Administration at the federal level under President Obama. And then later when, Obama, um, couldn’t run again, and President Trump was elected, he was having a difficult time finding someone to serve as Secretary of the VA, so Joseph Shulkin’s son, his son, grandson, became the Secretary of the Veterans Administration on the federal level. So, those are the roots back to 2002 Sherman Avenue. <br /><br />Interviewer: That’s fantastic. And, if you don’t mind me asking, and certainly if you’d prefer not to speak about this, you have that right, but, um, was there a religious affiliation—did your family belong to any particular temples or organizations in town?<br /><br />Narrator: Um, I believe they belonged to Beth—Beth El, Temple Beth El.<br /><br />Interviewer: Okay<br /><br />Narrator: But, um, my, my grandfather died in ‘74, um, and in fact I recall him passing away at the VA Hospital, because he was a veteran also.<br /><br />Interviewer: Okay<br /><br />Narrator: Um, and then my grandmother moved shortly to Milwaukee in about, probably about 1978, ‘79. So.<br /><br />Interviewer: And, um, may I ask what branch of service your grandfather served in the military? <br /><br />Narrator: Um, I think he was in the Army. There is a photograph of him dressed in a military uniform and it seems to be an army uniform. <br /><br />Interviewer: Do you know if he was a pharmacist in the military as well? <br /><br />Narrator: I, I don’t know--<br /><br />Interviewer: Okay--<br /><br />Narrator: No. <br /><br />Interviewer: Well, your family sounds incredible [laughter].<br /><br />Narrator: I, I do know that there's a, a copy--and I checked that out at Memorial Library once--of his dissertation that he had to write as he finished college, and it was about naturopathic medicines in Russia, from Russia. So, in those days, there’s a term called a “felcher”, which is someone who gathers medicines, herbal plants, and things, and uses them to help, heal people, and he wrote his dissertation about that experience and that activity. So that’s all we know.<br /><br />Interviewer: That sounds fascinating.<br /><br />Narrator: Yep.<br /><br />Interviewer: Well, since you’ve seen this neighborhood and this park throughout your life-- <br /><br />Narrator: Yes.<br /><br />Interviewer: Do you have any perceptions about how, ah, the park and the neighborhood have changed or stayed the same? <br /><br />Narrator: Um, well I think, it’s certainly much better-used now than it probably was in the past. And I really think Tenney Park is sort of ah--it’s sort of the heartbeat of the Eastside, because, there’s so much activity and so much life and vibrancy because of the water and the river and I think people just kind of naturally come to Tenney Park and see it as, as kind of the heartbeat, the soul of the Eastside, which I think is a really nice thing for a piece of property to be. <br /><br />Interviewer: Absolutely. Is there anything else you’d like to add, James? <br /><br />Narrator: Um, I think that’s all I have, so…<br /><br />Interviewer: Thank you<br /><br />Narrator: Thank you<br /><br />[END OF RECORDING]
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INDEX<br />0:18 - TENNEY PARK ACTIVITIES<br />0:35 - WARMING HOUSE AND SKATING<br />2:05 - FISHING<br />2:30 - TENNEY PARK NEIGHBORHOOD<br />3:10 - CULTURAL DIVERSITY<br />3:26 - CONKLIN PARK<br />3:30 - LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND SCHOOL SONG<br /><br /><br />[START OF RECORDING]<br /><br />Interviewer: This is Carol Griskavich, we are at the Tenney Park Century Celebration, on May 19, 2019. And we are here today with:<br /><br />Narrator: Steve Webster, W-E-B-S-T-E-R.<br /><br />Interviewer: Great, so, Steve, tell me, what's your connection to Tenney Park and the Tenney Park neighborhood?<br /><br />Narrator: Well I grew up at 23 East Johnson Street. And I, lived with my grandmother there, and I've been coming to Tenney Park since the late forties. And I was gonna tell a couple of stories about Tenney Park— <br /><br />Interviewer: Please!<br /><br />Narrator: and not take a lot of time.<br /><br />Interviewer: Please.<br /><br />Narrator: What I, what I really used to like about the place was the old warming house. ‘Cuz I started skating down here probably in, maybe in 1950, '51, '49, something like that. And, uh, the old warming house was a wooden structure, and it had a big wood stove in the middle of it. Right in the center and it was built in a round fashion, and there was a metal restraining, you know, railing around it. And the warming house was such that since it was a wood stove, the fire that came out of it, and the heat that came from the wood stove was terrifically hot. But the back of the shelter was cold; just as cold as it was outside, except it didn't have any wind. <br /><br />And in those days there was no Velcro or anything, so whatever people wore to Tenney Park to skate in, it got soaking wet. ‘Cuz we used to play "Crack the Whip", where we would skate and then throw somebody off and they would fall into the snowbank and then everybody would file on top of them into the snowbank. So when your clothes were soaking wet you would go to the warming house and stand. And you'd stand in front of, if you stood, when you managed to get up to the fire, you would be, just, burning hot from the wood, radiation when it was there, but your backside would be cold. But then you'd turn around and turn your backside, and the steam would just pour off as your clothes evaporated from the snow, and so the warming house just had terrific, terrific amounts of steam all through it. You could see it, you could smell it. And it smelled like, you know, sort of like the gym at the, at the school. But it was a wonderful place with an enormous sense of community where everybody was, you know, knew everybody else and was pushing everybody over and down and stuff. That was one quick story. <br /><br />And then I, I also used to fish a lot here. And the part of the lagoons which are over by Gorham Street where there's a little gravel path there. That always had hundreds and hundreds of bluegills in it. Now, the bluegills weren't any larger than your fist or smaller than that, but you could go and catch twenty or thirty bluegills in an hour and they weren't keepers, you'd have to catch them and throw them back in again. But I remember dreaming about seeing my bobber on my cork on my fishing pole going up and down, cuz I was catching so many bluegills in that area. <br /><br />Interviewer: Oh my! So, uh, do you still live in the neighborhood?<br /><br />Narrator: I live on the north side.<br /><br />Interviewer: On the north side.<br /><br />Narrator: Yea, I never lived west of Orchard Street.<br /><br />Interviewer: Ahh ok, and, so, obviously you've spent a lot of time here, what changes do you see in Tenney Park and the neighborhood?<br /><br />Narrator: Well, actually, I think Tenney Park has changed very little from when I was a kid. I mean, there are still a lot of people here. They still come here to do the same things, to have parties and to have picnics and to go fishing and to go ice skating. Umm. And I really, uh actually I don't think Tenney Park has changed very much. Maybe we have cultural diversity, which, like we didn't have before, particularly with Asian people. But there was a historic African-American neighborhood downtown that [unintelligible] was near. I went to played at Conklin Park primarily. I mean, Tenney Park was a big park, that I could get down to where Conklin Park was the primary park. I went to Lincoln Elementary School. You know, <br /><br />[SINGING] "Lincoln School we all love you. We will always try to be true. Beautiful school on Mendota’s shore, each year we love you more and more." [END OF SINGING]<br /><br />Narrator: [LAUGHING] That’s fantastic!<br /><br />Interviewer: I think I'll go now, and let somebody else—<br /><br />Narrator: Thank you so much!<br /><br />Interviewer: Thanks a lot!<br /><br />[END OF RECORDING]
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Foy, Briony
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INDEX<br />0:15, 1:30, 2:40 - HOUSE MOVING<br />O:16 - 1224 SHERMAN AVENUE<br />0:40 - A.S. MCGANN - REVEREND AND GEOLOGIST<br />1:08 - GARVER FAMILY<br />1:36 - 430 N. BALDWIN STREET<br />1:50 - MAID'S QUARTERS<br />3:38 - 214 N. BALDWIN STREET<br />3:47 - JOHN ERDAHL, LAWYER<br />4:13 - TENNEY PARK<br />5:26 - PARK DESIGN - LAGOON, FOLLIES & STONE BRIDGES<br /><br />[START OF RECORDING]<br /><br />Interviewer: So this is Joe Orman, on May 19, 2019 and I'm with-<br /><br />Narrator:Nicholas Wiedenhoeft, the spelling of my name is W, I, E, D, E, N, H, O, E, F, T.<br /><br />Interviewer: Now, you said that uh, in this neighborhood, you have a story about your house?<br /><br />Narrator: Yes, I do, uh, our house, is, uh, an interesting and prominent house in the Tenney Park neighborhood but it's not well recorded and I continue to try to advocate with the city for that and it's sort of recorded now, but not exactly. Uhh, the story of our house and the reason that our house is not well recorded is because our house began life at 1224 Sherman Ave. It was originally constructed by a reverend named A.S. McGann [sp?]. Uh, he was listed in the city directory as a geologist and also as a reverend. So-<br /><br />Interviewer: Ok.<br /><br />Narrator: I'm not sure if he taught at the university or what, if he was associated with them, but that was his, uh, his uh, his title in the directory in 1916. And in 1916 is the first recorded evidence that that house existed at 1224 Sherman Ave. Now, during the course of this home's life at 1224 Sherman Ave it was eventually sold to the Garver family of Garver Feed Mill fame. And the Garver family lived in it for a few years and then decided, "This house is too small us, cuz our house is only 2000 square feet".<br /><br />Interviewer: [LAUGHTER]<br /><br />Narrator: Uh, our house was then, uh, sold, to a Scottsman, I can't remember his name, but I've got it written down somewhere else. Anyway, it was sold to an individual uh in about 1927-28 and it was moved from the lot on Sherman Ave to 430 North Baldwin St and in 1928, I believe, the first record of 430 North Baldwin St arrives and that's when our house was moved to that site. So, our house includes some interesting interior items that wouldn't necessarily be in a normal house, especially not one built on Baldwin St. We have a huge picture window in the back that used to face the lake. And now it faces a very tiny backyard--<br /><br />Interviewer: Right.<br /><br />Narrator: on Baldwin St. We also have a, um, we have a maid's quarters, we have a servant's quarters and a servant's stairway. So there's a whole separate stairway, separate doors, uhh that goes up to an, what had been an, unheated room.<br /><br />Interviewer: Oh.<br /><br /><br />Narrator: And here, this poor maid, or whoever it was that was living in the room would be living in the winters in this terribly unheated room, and even, even now it's still kind of cold in there, even though there's a heat, a heat vent in there, it's like, "Oh my god". Uh, so clearly they weren't too concerned about the, the, heating the maid's room. Uhhh, and, I guess that's about all I really wanted to say about that, is that, you know. Our house started life on Sherman Ave and then was moved at about 1928 and we've been searching for years to find, to try and find photographs of the move because we thought, this has got to be a big thing.<br /><br />Interviewer: Right.<br /><br />Narrator: There have got to be pictures. It may have been moved with a horse team, I'm not sure. Because houses were moved in the 19th century, and it was quite common. But I would expect that by 1916, 1928, excuse me, 27, 28, when our house would have been moved, it probably was moved with heavy trucks.<br /><br />Interviewer: Right.<br /><br />Narrator: But, as I say, we never have been able to find any documentation that it was moved.<br /><br />Interviewer: Yea, that would be really interesting. So how long have you lived in that house?<br /><br />Narrator: We've lived there since 2005.<br /><br />Interviewer: Ok.<br /><br />Narrator: And, I did the research for this shortly after we moved in. And then did the research at the Historical Society and also at the, uh, State Historical Society library, and also through the city, umm, what do they call it? The city building permit people, I forget what they're called.<br /><br />Interviewer: Right, right, yea, so, were you living in this neighborhood originally or had you moved?<br /><br />Narrator: I had actually lived, prior to that, I lived just up the hill at 2-, 214 N Baldwin St...<br /><br />Interviewer: Ok.<br /><br />Narrator: Which was the house that was built by John Erdahl. He was, it was his second house that he built right after he got out of, uhhh, out of, law school.<br /><br />Interviewer: Mhmm.<br /><br />Narrator: And, he built the third house on Sherman Ave. It was the first house built on Sherman Ave, so, and that's a very large, uh, Tudor structure. So, he just kept, making more and more money, and building bigger houses.<br /><br />Interviewer: Building bigger houses, yea. Alrighty, so in terms of the park, umm, since you've been living in the neighborhood for a while, do you have any specific memories of the park, or anything like that?<br /><br />Narrator: Oh yes, I mean, the, I've been coming to this park uh probably since I was a child because my parents originally lived in Madison.<br /><br />Interviewer: OK.<br /><br />Narrator: And then they moved to the Twin Cities and I originally lived in Madison and I actually came back to go to the university. And, uhh, during my time at the university, umm, I lived, when I was in graduate school, I lived on umm, out to the east a little bit farther from here. I can't remember the name of the street. Out by 1st Street.<br /><br />Interviewer: Mhmm.<br /><br />Narrator: Area, by East Washington, by East High School. And I would just come to Tenney Park all the time. I'd ride my bike down here, come down here. So it's been a haven and a really pleasant place to come uhh, for, for decades for me. And I've visited friends here, I've had celebrations here. I've had my 50th wedding, oh no, my 50th birthday, not my 50th wed- my 50th birthday. I'm not that old. My 50th birthday right here in this particular pavilion right after it was built.<br /><br />Interviewer: That's great.<br /><br />Narrator: That was about six years ago I had that. And, uh, yea, Tenney Park is, we're really glad to have Tenney Park. It's a traditional park in many respects, because of the time period that it was designed and you don't see parks designed like this anymore. That would be uncommon to see someone go to the trouble of creating a park design that included a lagoon, or follies, I believe there traditionally were some follies that were incorporated in this but now the bridge is, I think, the only thing left, the stone bridges. Uh, and, you know it is a traditional park, but that makes it a really wonderful resource and makes it a wonderful link, a living link with our own history. So, we hope that Tenney Park would continue to be maintained and enjoyed for generations to come.<br /><br />Interviewer: I hope so as well.<br /><br />[END OF RECORDING]
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Tenney Park celebration, Nicholas Wiedenhoeft, 2019
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Foy, Briony
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2020-15-14
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A short story about Tenney Park and the Tenney-Lapham neighborhood, told by Nicholas Wiedenhoeft.
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