Stories from the Flood

Screenshot from the Stories from the Flood StoryMap, highlighting information about and audio clips from the project. (Click the image to link to the StoryMap.)

Viroqua, Wisconsin’s Driftless Writing Center created the Stories from the Flood project in early 2019, in response to catastrophic flooding in southwestern Wisconsin in August and September 2018. With the support of students from UW-Madison and UW-La Crosse, the project has gathered over 100 community stories of flooding in hopes of supporting community healing and serving as a resource for future conversations about flood recovery and resilience. The stories are shared publicly through the Oral History Program at UW-La Crosse, and have been featured in a an interactive StoryMap, a pair of podcasts (Wisconsin Humanities, Edge Effects) and several articles, including “Storying the Floods: Experiments in Feminist Flood Futures.“