News and Features
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North Guilford to Receive First Witness Stone, First Installation Since Pandemic
By Jesse Williams in the Guilford Courier on May 25, 2021 It has been about two years since Guilford saw the installation of a Witness Stone. That’s about to change. The project, founded by retired teacher Dennis Culliton and psychologist Doug Nygren has split, evolved, and greatly expanded since it was originally conceived as a…
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Student Film Screening: Looking for Color
From the Atlantic Black Box Project on May 22, 2021 Salisbury, Connecticut: Students from Salisbury School’s Searching for Slavery class, in conjunction with the Upper Housatonic Heritage Area, are excited to screen the premiere of their film, Looking for Color on May 26, 2021, at 7:00 p.m. for Noble Horizons. Among several class projects, this…
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Commemorating the Lives of Enslaved People in Connecticut
By Tess Terribile and Nancy Nalpathanchil of Where We Live How should we remember painful events in our history? There are more than 70 Witness Stones installed throughout our state. The markers commemorate the lives of the enslaved people that lived in Connecticut. Witness Stones Project Executive Director Dennis Culliton joins Bill Sullivan of the Suffield…
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Oral History and and the African American Experience
Hear Tamara Lanier explain how buying a salad at an ice cream store and a promise to her dying mother led to the discovery that Harvard University possessed images of her enslaved great, great, great grandfather Renty Taylor and his daughter, Delia. Hear how oral history, research and luck led to the discovery and how…
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Noble Horizons to Premiere Film by Salisbury School Students
From the Litchfield County Times on May 19, 2021 SALISBURY — Noble Horizons, a senior retirement community at 17 Cobble Road, will premiere Coloring Our Past, a film made by Salisbury School students in Rhonan Mokriski’s 2020-21 Searching for Slavery class, on May 26 at 7 p.m. The film chronicles their discovery of the lost stories of…
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Witness Stones Will Recall Lives of Enslaved Individuals in New Haven
From the New Haven Museum New Haven, Conn. (May 18, 2021)— Students from The Foote School will install commemorative Witness Stones Memorials recalling the lives of Pink and Stepna, two enslaved individuals who once lived in the Morris House, now known as the Pardee-Morris House, during a ceremony at the site on June 2, 2021,…
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Witness Stones Project to Partner with Mansfield Middle School to Recover the History of the Enslaved
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 Mansfield Middle School. The middle school in Storrs Mansifield, Connecticut, will be using the Project’s curriculum and landscape markers to expand their…
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Oral History and the African American Experience
Hear Tamara Lanier explain how buying a salad at an ice cream store and a promise to her dying mother led to discovering that Harvard University possessed images of her enslaved great, great, great grandfather, Renty Taylor, and his daughter, Delia. Learn how oral history, research and luck led to that discovery and how…
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Historical Society to Celebrate the Humanity of Greenwich’s Enslaved Individuals at Ceremony on May 27
By Laura McCormick on HamletHub.com on May 11, 2021 Greenwich Historical Society will host a ceremony on May 27th at 1 pm to honor the legacy of enslaved persons who resided in Greenwich. Open to the public, the event will take place on the Historical Society campus in Cos Cob to include town officials, civic leaders,…
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Witness Stones Placement Ceremony
From the Greenwich Historical Society on May 10, 2021 This spring marks the culmination of our first collaboration with the Witness Stones Project, in conjunction with local schools and the local community. Through research, education, and civic engagement, the Witness Stones Project, Inc., seeks to restore the history and to honor the humanity and…