News and Features
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Frank Ward Strong Middle Schools Joins Witness Stones Affiliates
The Frank Strong Middle School is a Regional District 13 school. The District’s goal is to sure an authentic learning environment that supports growth, innovation and critical thinking so that all students are successful in life, learning and work beyond school. The School will be bringing the Witness Stones Project to the school beginning in the 2021-22…
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Honoring The Silent: Documenting African American & Native American History In Connecticut
The Norwalk Historical Society hosted Witness Stones Project Founder and Executive Director Dennis Culliton and Central Connecticut State University Professor Dr. Katherine A. Hermes, J.D., Ph.D., for a presentation on documenting hidden history. We invite you to watch: The Norwalk Historical Society was incorporated in 1899 with the focus on “the research, preservation, and promotion…
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How the Aftermath of the Civil War Helps Us Understand Trumpism
David W. Blight, the Pulitzer-Prize winning historian and Yale Professor, spoke about How the Aftermath of the Civil War Helps Us Understand Trumpism on February 11, 2021. No historical event has left as deep an imprint on America’s collective memory as the Civil War. In the war’s aftermath, Americans had to embrace and cast off…
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Racial Trauma: Unchaining Ancestors’ Stories to Heal Cities
By Susana F. Molina in The Urban Activist on February 22, 2021 February is Afro-American History Month. It pays tribute to the generations of African Americans who struggled with adversity. This year’s commemoration, eight months after the events in Minneapolis, has turned out in a different tone. The racial trauma of an unpayable moral debt lingers over…
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Understanding Slavery in the North
Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition invited Witness Stones Project Founder and Executive Dennis Culliton and community historian Adrienne Joy Burns to speak at one of their Brown Bag Lunch Talks. We invite you to listen to their conversation with GLC Director David Blight: The Gilder Lehrman Center…
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Old Lyme Partnership Launches ‘Witness Stones’ Project to Honor Lives of Local Enslaved Persons, Introduce Related Curriculum in Schools
Published in LymeLine.com on February 2, 2021. OLD LYME — The Old Lyme Witness Stones Partnership has launched a public education and engagement effort that will introduce an educational curriculum for seventh-grade students of Lyme-Old Lyme Schools that will raise awareness of the town’s history. The project will also involve the installation of small historical…
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Wallingford Historic Preservation Trust Becomes WSP Affiliate
The Wallingford Historic Preservation Trust is the owner and caretaker of the Royce House and the American Silver Museum at the Franklin Johnson Mansion. Its mission is threefold: 1. To acquire, preserve, interpret and educate the public about historic structures and culture in early Wallingford. 2. To feature the 1840-1980 period of silver manufacturing in Wallingford and…
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Remapping New England: Monuments, Markers, and Collective Memory
Witness Stones Project Founder and Executive Director Dennis Culliton joined Representative Rachel Talbot Ross of the Portland Freedom Trail, Charles Roberts of Rhode Island Slave History Medallions, JerriAnne Boggis of Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire and moderator Dr. Kate McMahon of the Center for the Study of Global Slavery at the Smithsonian’s National Museum…
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Kingswood Oxford Students Make Important Progress in Witness Stones Project
In the Kingswood Oxford News published on January 21, 2021. The Witness Stones Project is an ongoing one in the Kingswood Oxford School history department each year that engages the students in authentic, real-world learning. The project seeks to honor the humanity and contributions of the enslaved people who helped build the community we live…
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How to Bring the Witness Stones Project to Life
By Katie McCarthy on the Atlantic Black Box Project on January 17, 2021 This 2020-2021 academic year marks the third year that my students at Kingswood Oxford in West Hartford have participated in the Witness Stones Project and it’s been the most inspiring and meaningful work of my teaching career. It’s also been the most…