News and Features
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Greenwich’s “Forgotten” Enslaved Population: Witness Stones Project Seeks to Tell Their Stories
by Robert Marchant on February 12, 2022 in the Greenwich Time GREENWICH — Few markers of slavery exist in southern Connecticut, reminders of a time when men and women were bought and sold like property or livestock. Two of them stand at Union Cemetery in Greenwich — the headstones of Hester Mead and her mother Candice…
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Salisbury School Students Uncover Berkshire History
Witness Stones Project affiliate Salisbury School is is proud to launch its website, Coloring Our Past. We invite you to view the website here.
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A Black History Trail for Wallingford
By Lorraine Connelly in My Record Journal on February 11, 2022 Wallingford has many trails — a wine trail, a Trail of Terror, numerous walking trails, and the historic George Washington Trail to name a few. According to our town’s website, Gen. George Washington made two trips through town, one in 1775 to gather provisions…
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Witness Stones Project to Partner with St. Thomas’s Day School
The Witness Stones Project, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to restore the history and honor the humanity of the enslaved individuals who helped build our communities, today announced a new affiliation with St. Thomas’s Day School. The school in New Haven, Connecticut, will be using the Project’s curriculum and landscape markers to expand their…
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Witness Stones Project to Partner with Woodstock Middle School
The Witness Stones Project, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to restore the history and honor the humanity of the enslaved individuals who helped build our communities, today announced a new affiliation with Woodstock Middle School. The school in Woodstock, Connecticut, will be using the Project’s curriculum and landscape markers to expand their teaching of…
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The Last Sale in New Haven
By Adrienne Joy Burns in the Yale Alumni Magazine, January/February 2022 My great-great-grandmother was born in South Carolina and was an enslaved person. When I did research about her, in Charleston, South Carolina, I was able to go and see a slave market—unlike in New Haven, where you cannot see the place where Lois and Lucy…
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Reconciling the Dream: Truth, America’s History, and the Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King
Witness Stones Project Chair Patricia Wilson Pheanious addressed the congregation at North Madison Congregational Church on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, 2022.
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Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds: A History of Slavery in New England with Dr. Jared Hardesty
Witness Stones Project affiliate Witness to History: Slavery in Guilford presented this webinar on January 13, 2022 through the Guilford Free Library.
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Witness Stones Project Among Guilford Recipients of Humanities Grants
By Ellyn Santiago in the Guilford Patch on January 12, 2022 GUILFORD, CT — Guilford’s arts community will soon be enriched with the announcement Wednesday by state Sen. Christine Cohen about a quarter million in state arts grants. The funds were awarded to nearly two-dozen shoreline arts and humanities organizations to “help them financially survive during…
