Category: In The Media
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What America Can Learn About Atonement
We are honored to have our work recognized by Clint Smith. Some in the U.S. have undertaken efforts reminiscent of those in Germany. In Connecticut, a group of educators started the Witness Stones Project, modeled after the Stolpersteine in Germany. The group works with schoolchildren in five Northeast states to help them more intimately understand the…
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The Project Is Honored As a Game Changer
On October 6, 2022, the Witness Stones Project was honored by Connecticut Explored as a Game Changer initiative that advances the way we study, interpret, and disseminate Connecticut history.
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Witness Stones Project Students Recognized by Hopewell Valley Historical Society
By Amie Rukenstein on MercerMe.com on October 3, 2022 At its annual meeting on Sunday, September 18 at the Watershed Institute, the Hopewell Valley Historical Society announced award winners and attendees were treated to a talk about the historic Drake house and its most famous inhabitant, Muriel Gardiner Buttinger, who went to Europe to meet…
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New Jersey Witness Stone Affiliate Set to Expand
By Michael Mancuso in NJ.com on September, 22, 2022 If it takes a village to raise a child, sometimes that’s also what it takes to bring hidden history to light. That is certainly the case for the Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum (SSAAM), founded in 2014 with a mission “to tell the story of the unique culture, experiences, and…
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Witness Stones Project Honored As a Gamechanger
Connecticut Explored has recently named the Witness Stones Project as one of its20 Game Changer Honorees that advance the way we study, interpret, and disseminate history. Over the past five years, we have worked with more than 6,600 students in 45 communities to help restore the history and honor the humanity of the enslaved individuals who…
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Witness Stones Project Honored As a Game Changer
By Susan Dunne in the Hartford Courant on August 17, 2022 Connecticut Explored, the nonprofit history magazine, wants to tell stories mainstream history left out, the stories from communities that have been unheard, suppressed or oppressed. The nonprofit has named 20 “Game Changers,” modern-day historians whose methods and subjects go where traditional historians have not gone…
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Greenwich Historical Society Holds Witness Stones Placement Ceremony
In the Greenwich Sentinel on August 10, 2022 Since 2019 the Greenwich Historical Society has collaborated with The Witness Stones Project on this initiative that seeks to teach school-aged children about the enslaved persons who lived in their hometowns. Students and teachers from Sacred Heart Greenwich and Greenwich Academy work in conjunction with the Historical Society in…
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Poets Celebrate Juneteenth in Old Lyme
From the Connecticut College News on June 29, 2022 At the Florence Griswold Museum’s Juneteenth celebration, Conn Professor of English and Poet-in-Residence Kate Rushin read “Fishing for Shad,” a poem she wrote about the story of Jack Howard, who was born enslaved in Old Lyme, Connecticut, in 1795 and was willed to another person at the…
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St. Matthew’s Aims to Tell the Story of Wilton’s Forgotten Enslaved people
By J.D. Freda in The Hour on June 19, 2022 WILTON — St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church is committing itself to educating the community and paying tribute to the enslaved peoples of Wilton. The goal is to spend the remainder of the calendar year digging through historical land and personal records, with the help of the Wilton Historical…
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Why Wallingford Needs a Witness Stone
In the Record Journal on June 19, 2022