Category: In The Media

  • Witness Stones Affiliate Teacher Honored

    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 […]

  • Unforgotten: Connecticut’s Hidden History of Slavery

    Unforgotten: Connecticut’s Hidden History of Slavery

    We’re proud to be a part of the upcoming series from Connecticut Public, Unforgotten: Connecticut’s Hidden History of Slavery. The series–featuring radio storytelling, in-depth videos, pictures, digital stories, podcast episodes […]

  • A Dark Time in America: Former History Teacher Doesn’t Want to White Wash Slavery

    A Dark Time in America: Former History Teacher Doesn’t Want to White Wash Slavery

    By Steve Bigham in the Republican-American on February 15, 2024 WOODBURY – The founder of a statewide effort to restore the history and humanity of enslaved individuals in Connecticut was […]

  • Stonington Middle School Students Uncover Story of Enslaved Couple

    Stonington Middle School Students Uncover Story of Enslaved Couple

    By Carrie Czerwinski in The Day on January 3, 2024 Westerly ― Stonington Middle School students gathered at the United Theatre in Westerly on Tuesday morning to screen short films they […]

  • Bearing Witness at Wayside Cottage

    Bearing Witness at Wayside Cottage

    By Todd Sliss in the Scarsdale Inquirer on April 6, 2023 History doesn’t change. What we learn about history does and how we view it over time certainly evolves. And while some […]

  • Social Studies ConneCTion

    Social Studies ConneCTion

    Social studies leaders Steve Armstrong and Tony Roy connect with educators and advocates from across the state on their Social Studies ConneCTion podcast. Witness Stones Project founder and Executive Director […]

  • Thank You for Support of Church Program

    Thank You for Support of Church Program

    Letter from the Reverend Jan Gregory-Charpentier and Tony Jones to the Westerly Sun on March 13, 2023 On behalf of the entire Kingston Congregational Church and our Kingston Witness Stones […]

  • Clint Smith Discusses the Witness Stones Project

    Clint Smith Discusses the Witness Stones Project

    Atlantic writer and best-selling author Clint Smith joined Michel Martin to discuss his cover story on what America can learn from German efforts to memorialize the Holocaust. A group of […]

  • Praise from Clint Smith

    Praise from Clint Smith

    We are honored to have our work recognized by Clint Smith in The Atlantic. In an interview with Atlantic editor Isabel Fattal, the best-selling author of How the Word Is Passed said: There […]