News and Features
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Juneteenth Witness Stones Celebration at the Florence Griswold Museum Features Jazz Quartet & Poets
OLD LYME – The Witness Stones Poets will join the Nat Reeves Quartet in a Juneteenth celebration of jazz and poetry on the lawn of the Florence Griswold Museum, 96 Lyme St. in Old Lyme, Connecticut, on Saturday afternoon, June 18, at 2 p.m. The acclaimed Connecticut poets – Marilyn Nelson, Kate Rushin, Rhonda Ward and Antoinette…
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Juneteenth Celebration of Jazz & Poetry in Old Lyme, June 18
In the Middletown Press on June 14, 2022 OLD LYME – The Witness Stones Poets will join the Nat Reeves Quartet in a Juneteenth celebration of jazz and poetry on the lawn of the Florence Griswold Museum 2 p.m., June 18, 96 Lyme St. The poems commemorate 14 African-descended persons once enslaved in Old Lyme, according to…
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West Hartford 2022 Juneteenth
By Ronni Newtown in We-Ha.com on June 13, 2022 West Hartford observed Juneteenth for the first time in 2020, and on Sunday – which is actually June 19th – the town will host its third annual celebration of the day marking the effective end of slavery in the United States. On June 19, 1865, the…
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Wooster School Students Honor Enslaved Danbury Man Freed after Fighting in Revolutionary War
By Kendra Baker in the News-Times on June 13, 2022 DANBURY — Outside the Long Ridge United Methodist Church lays a stone recognizing a former resident and veteran named Nimrod Benedict, whose life and story has become the focus of an extensive local history project at Wooster School. The stone honoring the late Danbury resident was placed…
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Lives Of Enslaved Couple Honored on Juneteenth At Pardee-Morris House
Ellyn Santiago for Patch.com on June 6, 2022 NEW HAVEN, CT —Stepna Primus, a “husband and farmer,” was enslaved by Amos Morris, Issac Forbes, and Enos Heminway, at the Morris house in New Haven. In 1796, Primus was emancipated. Also enslaved at the Morris House was his wife, Pink, “mother, wife and landowner,” who…
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Witness Stones Project Installation Ceremony to Honor Nimrod Benedict
On May 31, 2022, students from the Wooster School gathered at the Long Ridge United Methodist Church to remember and honor the life of Nimrod Benedict.
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Witnessing the Past: Woodstock Middle School Students Pay Tribute to an Enslaved Man Born in 1784
By Donna Dufresne On June 7, 2022, seventh graders from Woodstock Middle School shared evidence and insights about slavery in the dedication ceremony of a Witness Stone for a young man named Caesar, who was born enslaved in 1784 and raised with three other young men, Cit, Simon, and Prince in the Samuel McClellan home.…
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Hartford 2022 Installation Ceremony
On June 6, 2022, students from CREC Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts honored the lives of Abda and Hannah in Hartford, Connecticut. We invite you to watch the ceremony here.
