News and Features
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Guilford Aims to Come to Grips with Town’s Past Slavery
Our panel discussion was a great hit! Thank you, Lauretta, from the Guilford Free Library for your assistance, the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center for providing Oliver Scholes as a moderator, our panelists for their expertise, and all of the attendees for sharing their minds and hearts about how our study of slavery in the past can make a…
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Guilford Group to Remember Town’s Slaves with Witness Stones
By Ed Stannard in the New Haven Register on September 9, 2017 Guilford>> The memories of those African Americans who were enslaved in Guilford will be preserved in granite and brass markers around town as the result of the Witness Stones Project. Continue reading.
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Guilford Witness Stones Project Officially Launches July 20
By Zoe Roos in the Guilford Courier on July 18, 2017. Guilford — A nation’s history is never perfect and there are often parts people would rather forget or not discuss, but no part of history should go unrecognized. It may have been centuries ago and a practice more commonly associated with the south, but…
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Guilford Group Starts Slavery Plaque Project
By Zoe Roos in the Guilford Courier on April 12, 2017 Guilford — Wandering by historic homes in Guilford, a passerby will often notice a plaque adorning the front of a building indicating the year the house was built, who built it, and who of importance might have lived there—perhaps a famous figure such as…
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Witness Stones Project Founder Honored by the Guilford Preservation Alliance
On September 26, 2016, the Witness Stones Project’s Dennis Culliton received the Charles Hubbard Award for the his research and education work on slavery and African Americans in Guilford. Continue reading.