News and Features
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Witness Stones Shed Light On New Haven’s History Of Enslavement Downtown
By Al Larriva-Latt in Arts Council New Haven on June 6th, 2022 At the steps of the Trinity Episcopal Church on the New Haven Green, a dozen New Haven private middle schoolers in dress clothes crouched around two metal-plated stones. To the right, colorful posters displayed family trees, timelines, and key word definitions. The students…
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Town of Old Lyme Honors 16 More Lives Once Enslaved in Community
By Jolie Sherman NBC Connecticut on June 3, 2022 Historians are remembering the lives of those who were enslaved in Old Lyme. Now, 30 brass plaques known as Witness Stones can be found along Lyme Street and McCurdy Road as a way to recognize both enslaved African and Native Americans and sites of enslavement in…
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Old Lyme Marks Witness Stones Memorializing Enslaved People
By Daniel Passapera, Special to The Day, on June 3, 2022 Old Lyme — The town held an installation ceremony Friday for the Witness Stones Old Lymes plaques that have been installed throughout Lyme Street, memorials to enslaved residents who one lived here. During the event at Old Lyme-Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library, community members, Lyme-Old…
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Guilford 2022 Installation Ceremony
On June 3, 2022, students from the Elisabeth C. Adams Middle School gathered to honor the lives of Cuff, Dinah, and Flora. We invite you to watch the ceremony here.
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First-Ever Witness Stones Installation Ceremony in the City of Danbury
By Lori Kriegel on HamletHub.com on June 3, 2022 Wooster School’s Middle School held the first Witness Stones Installation Ceremony in the City of Danbury on Tuesday, May 31, 2022 at the Long Ridge United Methodist Church at 201 Long Ridge Rd, Danbury, CT 06810. Wooster School’s 7th and 8th grade Middle School team have…
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Remembering Flora
By Ella Montalvo, Class of 2022, Elisabeth C. Adams Middle School It is scary to imagine that these people suffered on the very grass we walk on in our town but it isn’t any better for it to be the grass that others in the South walk on. Flora was an enslaved person in Guilford,…
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Remembering Cuff
By Teagan Connellan, Class of 2022, Elisabeth C. Adams Middle School No birth records. No death records. No marriage records. No working records. Someone who wasn’t even seen as a person. Someone who would be traded or worth a unit of dollars. Someone who was with five different people in his lifetime. Not as family.…
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Witness Stones Old Lyme Installs 16 Additional Plaques Marking Enslavement Sites
On LymeLine.com on June 3, 2022 OLD LYME – The Old Lyme Witness Stones Project is installing 16 new Witness Stones—historical plaques commemorating the lives of enslaved and indentured African Americans and Native Americans, who labored in the historic town of Lyme. The plaques will be placed on Lyme St. and McCurdy Rd. in Old Lyme. Continue…
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Witness Stones Project Reflection
By Daven Kaphar, Class of 2022, The Foote School I enjoyed the Witness Stones Project. I learned so much more about slavery in early America, but I found the story of Lois Tritton especially shocking. For a long time Lois and her mother thought they were free, just to be sold back in to slavery.…