News and Features
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What is a Stopping Stone?
As you go about your day, whether on familiar streets or traveling through new spaces, you might notice something unfamiliar set into the ground: a square of granite topped with […]
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Our New Home
We’re thrilled to announce that the Witness Stones Project has officially joined Historic New England as the educational arm of its Stopping Stones program. We will be continuing the important work […]
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‘Cuffee Voorhees!’: Timberlane Students, Descendants, and Community Unite to Honor a Life Once Lost to History
By Seth Siditsky on MercerMe.com on June 6, 2025 For more than a century, the life of Cuffee Voorhees—an enslaved man turned Union soldier—remained largely hidden from the historical record. […]
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Two Enslaved Longmeadow Residents Remembered
by Sarah Heinonen in The Reminder on June 4, 2025 LONGMEADOW — In 2024, the Longmeadow community remembered two enslaved people who lived and died in the town. Two stone […]
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Lancaster City Witness Stones to Teach about Local Enslaved People
By Sarah Nicell on LancasterOnline.com on June 1, 2025 Historians don’t know much about Susan, Robert, Bet and Frank, who lived in Lancaster in the 18th and 19th centuries. Their […]
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Witness Stones Old Lyme Installs 12 More Plaques Honoring Enslaved People as Five-Year Project Sunsets, Brings Total to 60
By Elizabeth Regan on LymeLine.com on May 30, 2025 OLD LYME–Ten small brass plaques installed Friday morning on the Sill Lane Green are there to fill holes left by untold […]
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Longmeadow Honors 18th-Century Enslaved Individuals with Ceremony
By Julia O’Keefe on WWLP.com on May 27, 2025 LONGMEADOW, Mass. (WWLP) – A ceremony to honor two enslaved individuals from the 18th century was held at the First […]
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The Story of Frank
Students at JP McCaskey High School created this video about “Frank,” a man enslaved by Edward Hand during the Revolutionary Era in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. This film is created in conjunction […]
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Bearing Witness: Honoring the Lives of Robert, Bet, Susan, and Frank
By the Lancaster City Witness Stones Project on May 27, 2025 On a quiet city street lined with brick and memory, students, educators, community members, and historians gathered for a […]
