News and Features
-
Witness Stones Affiliate Teacher Honored
In Zip06.com on August 28, 2024 With ties to Branford in her family history and a love of history and her community, Kaitlyn Goodwin is helping the Branford Historical Society […]
-
Leadership Transition
After many years of dedicated service, our Co-Founder and Executive Director, Dennis Culliton, has decided to step down from his current role. Dennis founded the Project as a teacher at […]
-
Juneteenth Joyfully Celebrated at FloGris Museum with Jazz & Poetry
In LymeLine.com on June 16, 2024 OLD LYME—On Saturday, June 22, Witness Stones Old Lyme presented a celebratory event filled with jazz and poetry on the lawn of the Florence Griswold […]
-
HHS to Unveil Memorial Markers During New Paltz Juneteenth Jubilee
On ILoveNY.com on June 18, 2024 New Paltz, NY – As part of the organization’s commitment to telling the stories of the marginalized inhabitants of Historic Huguenot Street (HHS), the […]
-
Somerset County Presents 2024 Historic Preservation And History Awards
By Alexis Tarrazi on Patch on June 13, 2024 SOMERVILLE, NJ — Somerset County honored the winners of the Somerset County Historic Preservation and History Awards for their excellence in preserving local history. The […]
-
Somerville, South Bound Brook Projects Recognized with Somerset County History Awards
By Ethan Mannello in MyCentralJersey.com on June 13, 2024 The Somerset County Cultural and Heritage Commission and the county commissioners announced the winners of the Historic Preservation and History Awards. Davie-Lyn […]
-
Fifth-Grade Teacher at Somerville’s Van Derveer School Recognized for Project on Local Black History
By Rod Hirsch in Tap Into Somerset on June 12, 2024 SOMERVILLE, NJ – Somerset County has announced the winners of the Somerset County Historic Preservation and History Awards for their excellence in […]
-
Juneteenth Jubilee in New Paltz
By Terence P. Ward in HudsonValley1 on June 10, 2024 The fourth annual Juneteenth jubilee celebration of triumph and history and learning about Juneteenth with the New Paltz community will take place […]
-
Wooster Students Honor Enslaved Danbury Woman Who Gained Her Freedom
By Kendra Baker in the NewsTimes on June 8, 2024 DANBURY — Patience, an enslaved woman in Danbury who gained her freedom in 1793, became the third individual memorialized as part of […]
