Madison When we hit Madison, we had to provision ourselves for the week for our five-person crew preparing for the battle with the million pieces of paper that represent the ACORN archives within the Social Action Collection at the Wisconsin Historical Society. We searched for the location of the local food cooperative, the Willy Street …
Category: ACORN
Lost in the Stacks
Madison It was the right thing to do. Make a plan to try and retain records from the ACORN family of organizations in some professionally maintained archives before in the shuffling from office to office, here to there, we lost everything. We had tried to interest the University of Arkansas at both Fayetteville and Little …
Mowing the ACORN Farm
New Orleans The ACORN Farm and Orchard is now in its sixth year, having broken our first ground on our half-acre in New Orleans’ lower 9th ward in 2013. Walking the property at different times of the year can be quite amazing now that a number of seasons have come and gone. Long row beds …