Madison Reunion Featured in WSJ Article About Dow Day Riot

Recently the Wisconsin State Journal wrote an article about the famous “Dow Day” riot that happen in 1967: 50 years ago, ‘Dow Day’ left its mark on Madison. The article featured the following commentary from Ben Sidran, who is an organizer of the C4CS Project The Madison Reunion:

“The celebrated musician Ben Sidran, who arrived in Madison in 1961, likens the Dow riot to ‘a stone thrown into a pond.’

‘You can see these ripples that went out. It wasn’t just an event that happened in the corridors of the (Commerce) building,’ he said. ‘It was a very pivotal event that happened to the campus, and in some ways to the country.’

Sidran and his wife Judy were in England at the time of the riot. Fifty years later, they are organizers of ‘The Madison Reunion,’ a paid conference with free public events set for June 14-16, 2018, designed as ‘a cultural Woodstock’ to celebrate and reflect on the 1960s. Among panels with titles such as ‘Conscientious Objection’ and ‘What’s Left of the Wisconsin Idea’ is ‘The Day of DOW.'”

You can learn more about the conference and events by visiting The Madison Reunion website.