March 23, 2021 – 7:00pm via Zoom
Matthew Prigge, WI Historical Society
Matthew is an author and librarian from Milwaukee. He is the author of four books, including 2019’s Damn the Old Tinderbox: Milwaukee’s Palace of the West and the Fire that Defined an Era. He is a two-time winner of the Milwaukee County Historical Society’s Gambrinus Prize and the former host of What Made Milwaukee Famous, a local history radio program on WMSE 91.7.
The WPA Handicrafts Project was an innovative government project that helped thousands of local women make it through the worst of the Great Depression with a paycheck and new job skills. It was the first racially-integrated WPA project in the country.