News and Features
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Former Enslaved Resident To Be Honored At Guilford’s Henry Whitfield House
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, will be held at the Henry Whitfield State Museum on Saturday, May 17, at 11 a.m., according to an announcement from the town. Cuff was enslaved…
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The Golden Shield Award
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 (NSDFPA). The award was announced at the organization’s national meeting held in Alexandria, Virginia, on April 10, 2017. The Golden Shield Award is presented annually…
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Uncovering Lancaster’s Hidden History: McCaskey Students Lead Witness Stones Project
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 studies teacher Dr. Todd Mealy, is working to bring history to life through the Witness Stones Project. This initiative aims to honor and remember individuals who…
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A Conversation with Guilford Community Television
We’re were delighted to share news about the Project with Guiford Community Television’s Matthew LeBow.
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Their Kindred Earth: Photographs by William Earle Williams
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 June 22, 2025. The exhibition of newly commissioned photographs makes visible little-known sites across Old Lyme (as well as the state and nation) significant to…
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Historic Huguenot Street to Honor First People Believed to Be Enslaved in New Paltz
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 the Huguenot families who founded New Paltz in the 1600s, will be honored a special ceremony at Historic Huguenot Street on Feb. 22, at 11…
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Witness Stones Project in Lancaster City Will Teach about Local Enslaved People
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 happened: The Lancaster City Witness Stones Project will place approximately 25 stones per year for the next three years in the central historical district to teach…
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Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum Hosts Black History Month Events
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 of special events in honor of Black History Month in February. Programs will include live theatrical performances, a birthday celebration for Frederick Douglass, and a…
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Guilford Explores Its Hidden History with Slavery by Sharing 100 Names of the Enslaved
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 rare in Connecticut though fairly common in the South. Baby Rose is among the 100 people who were enslaved in Guilford and are now being…
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Standing Witness
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 dedication on Nov. 3. The plaque was presented to Pheanious, a fourth-generation descendant of Toby—an enslaved person who attended the Westbrook Congregational Church in its…