News and Features
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Guilford Project Researching Slavery Finds Descendant Living in Connecticut
By Ed Stannard in the New Haven Register on November 4, 2018 GUILFORD — Patricia Wilson Pheanious was sitting on the porch of her Ashford home when her husband came out and told her that someone was on the phone and wanted to talk about her ancestry. Dennis Culliton, co-founder of the Witness Stones Project, in which…
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Students Lay Stones To Address Town’s History Of Slavery
By Michael Walsh in the Hartford Courant on October 4, 2018 Retired West Hartford high school history teachers Tracey Wilson and Liz Devine worked with Conard High School students and the Noah Webster House and West Hartford Historical Society to lay the first in a series of witness stones that address the town’s connection to slavery. Continue…
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Witness Stones Project Takes Root In West Hartford
The Witness Stones Project was present for another milestone today when the Witness Stones West Hartford Project a committee of the Noah Webster House & West Hartford Historical Society along with West Hartford Public Schools held their first installation ceremony honoring George and Jude. Thank you to Tracey Wilson and Liz Devine for shepherding this project, teacher Sean…
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Witness Stones Holds First Summer Workshop
Last week, the Witness Stones Project conducted its first Teachers’ Workshop inviting educators from West Hartford, Middletown, and Guilford. At the workshop they learned, shared, and discover the project whose aim is to: Restore the History and Honor the Humanity and Contributions of the Enslaved Individuals Who Helped Build Our Communities. We spoke about Bristow,…
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Remembrance Deferred
By Yonatan Greenberg in the New Journal at Yale on February 16, 2018. Guilford, a town of twenty-thousand half an hour north of New Haven, is a place that loves its past. There are three historical societies, and in the town center, by the chocolatier and tea shop, historical markers nearly outnumber street signs. A…
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Through Local History, A Stronger Sense Of Place
Witness Stones Project Founder an Executive Director Dennis Culliton joined Leah Glaser, Professor of History and Coordinator of the Public History Program at Central Connecticut State University, Chuck Arning, National Park Service Interpretive Ranger and A/V Specialist, John Tuohy, author and historian for the city of Ansonia, Connecticut, and Regan Miner, consultant for the city…
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Slavery in New England
Minutes of the 1464th Meeting of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences by Gregory Tignor and Monica Aspiantoon on February 13, 2018 The President introduced Douglas Nygren who introduced the guest speaker with the following statement. “When I approached Gregory last April about our doing a presentation on the Witness Stone Project and…
