ANYONE WITH an interest in Madison history and a free moment on Tuesday should consider stopping at the Italian Workmen’s Club on Regent Street, where a daylong conference, “The Greenbush: Past, Present, Future,” is being held.
This free-to-the-public event is a culmination of a yearlong project on the Greenbush – the triangular neighborhood formed by Park Street, Regent Street and West Washington Avenue that was undone by “urban renewal” in the 1960s – undertaken by Mark Wagler’s fifth-grade class at Randall School, with considerable assistance from the UW’s Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures, local organizations and historians including Catherine Tripalin Murray, Carol and Iza Goroff, Joe “Buffo” Cerniglia and Anne Paratore Dinsmore.