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  • Former Enslaved Resident To Be Honored At Guilford’s Henry Whitfield House

    Former Enslaved Resident To Be Honored At Guilford’s Henry Whitfield House

    April 25, 2025

    By Richard Kaufman on Patch on April 25, 2025 GUILFORD, CT — An installation ceremony for a “Witness Stone” honoring Cuff, a former enslaved resident at the Henry Whitfield House, […]

  • The Golden Shield Award

    The Golden Shield Award

    April 10, 2025

    Witness Stones Project Executive, Pat Wilson Pheanious, has been named the 2025 recipient of the Golden Shield Award given by the National Society Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America […]

  • Uncovering Lancaster’s Hidden History: McCaskey Students Lead Witness Stones Project

    Uncovering Lancaster’s Hidden History: McCaskey Students Lead Witness Stones Project

    April 1, 2025

    By Asia Tabb on WTIF.org on April 1, 2025 A groundbreaking project is unfolding at McCaskey High School in Lancaster, where a group of students, under the guidance of social […]

  • A Conversation with Guilford Community Television

    A Conversation with Guilford Community Television

    March 10, 2025

    We’re were delighted to share news about the Project with Guiford Community Television’s Matthew LeBow.

  • Their Kindred Earth: Photographs by William Earle Williams

    Their Kindred Earth: Photographs by William Earle Williams

    February 22, 2025

    OLD LYME, CONN.- The FloGris Museum in Old Lyme, CT, presents its first solo exhibition by a contemporary Black artist, Their Kindred Earth: Photographs by William Earle Williams, February 22 through […]

  • Historic Huguenot Street to Honor First People Believed to Be Enslaved in New Paltz

    Historic Huguenot Street to Honor First People Believed to Be Enslaved in New Paltz

    February 9, 2025

    By Brian Hubert in the FreemanOnline.com on February 9, 2025 NEW PALTZ, N.Y. — Anthony and Susanna, who historians and researchers believe were the first African people to be enslaved by […]

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    Witness Stones Project in Lancaster City Will Teach about Local Enslaved People

    January 20, 2025

    By Ted Lassa for Lancaster Online on January 20, 2025 When: Lancaster City Council meeting, Jan. 28. Mayor Danene Sorace and council members Faith Craig and Lochard Calixte were absent. What […]

  • Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum Hosts Black History Month Events

    Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum Hosts Black History Month Events

    January 20, 2025

    By Tokz Gabriel, Jr. in Tap Into Hillsborough on January 20, 2025 SKILLMAN, NJ – The Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum, central New Jersey’s first dedicated Black history museum, will host a series […]

  • Guilford Explores Its Hidden History with Slavery by Sharing 100 Names of the Enslaved

    Guilford Explores Its Hidden History with Slavery by Sharing 100 Names of the Enslaved

    November 17, 2024

    By Sue Braden in CT Insider on November 14, 2024 GUILFORD — In 1773, Theophilus Morgan Jr. “gifted” 1-year-old slave “baby Rose” to his 9-year-old granddaughter Rebecca Parmelee, an act that was […]

  • Standing Witness

    Standing Witness

    November 7, 2024

    In Zip06.com on November 07, 2024  Westbrook Historical Society President Marcy Fuller, left, stands next to Pastor Jeanette Hicks, Patricia Wilson Pheanious, and Mike Cyr during a witness stone plaque […]

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