News and Features
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Conservation Project Planned for West Hartford’s Historic Old North Cemetery
By Ronni Newton on We-Ha.com on September 23, 2021 A stroll through the Old North Cemetery on North Main Street in West Hartford reveals gravestones bearing many familiar names – names used for town roads, schools, and key landmarks – but it’s also quickly apparent that many of the stones are in a state of…
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Witness Stones Project to Partner with CREC Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts in Hartford, Connecticut
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 CREC Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts. A generous grant from the William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund will allow the school to…
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Religion, Race, and Slavery in Colonial New England
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Searching for Tamar, Finding Ourselves
This book was written by students from the Country School of Madison in remembrance of Tamar.
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Witness Stones Project Joins Northeast Slavery Records Collaborative
The Witness Stones Project is proud to join the Atlantic Black Box Project, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and Monmouth University as an organizational member of the Northeast Slavery Records Collaborative. The Northeast Slavery Records Collaborative (NSRC) develops and maintains an online searchable compilation of records, called the Northeast Slavery Records Index (NESRI).…
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Witness Stones Project Receives Funding in Hebron
In the Journal Enquirer on August 23, 2021 HEBRON — Eleven projects have received funding from the Hebron Greater Together Community fund through the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving. The Friends of the Office of State Archaeology received $4,400 for a multidisciplinary project at the Cesar Peters home site with RHAM Middle and High School…
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Witness Stones West Hartford Receives West Hartford Greater Together Community Fund Award
By Ronni Newton on We-Ha.comi on July 28, 2021 The West Hartford Greater Together Community Fund, which announced in January plans to award the first $25,000 of grant money to local nonprofits, announced Wednesday that seven organizations have will receive awards in the inaugural cycle. The program, formed by The Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and administered…
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New Memorials First to Acknowledge Difficult Truth of Slaves in Greenwich
By Don Snyder in Greenwich Time on July 14, 2021 Memorials to victims of the Holocaust, known as “stolpersteine” or “stumbling blocks,” are found throughout Europe from Trondheim, Norway to Thessaloniki, Greece. More than 75,000 of these brass plaques, created by German artist Gunter Demnig, have been placed outside the former homes of the victims, whose…
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Our 2021 Annual Report
2021 Annual Report
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Let’s Not Fight the Civil War Again
By Jackie Hemond in the Suffield Observer on June 30, 2021 In June, I witnessed an amazing dialogue. For two days, the Phelps-Hatheway House hosted two programs, both featuring Joe McGill, a national figure and founder of the Slave Dwelling Project. The hook for the Project is ingenious. McGill sleeps in slave quarters for a night.…