Category: In The Media
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A Black History Trail for Wallingford
By Lorraine Connelly in My Record Journal on February 11, 2022 Wallingford has many trails — a wine trail, a Trail of Terror, numerous walking trails, and the historic George Washington Trail to name a few. According to our town’s website, Gen. George Washington made two trips through town, one in 1775 to gather provisions…
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The Last Sale in New Haven
By Adrienne Joy Burns in the Yale Alumni Magazine, January/February 2022 My great-great-grandmother was born in South Carolina and was an enslaved person. When I did research about her, in Charleston, South Carolina, I was able to go and see a slave market—unlike in New Haven, where you cannot see the place where Lois and Lucy…
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Witness Stones Project Among Guilford Recipients of Humanities Grants
By Ellyn Santiago in the Guilford Patch on January 12, 2022 GUILFORD, CT — Guilford’s arts community will soon be enriched with the announcement Wednesday by state Sen. Christine Cohen about a quarter million in state arts grants. The funds were awarded to nearly two-dozen shoreline arts and humanities organizations to “help them financially survive during…
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The Witness Stones Project Receives CT Cultural Fund Operating Support Grant from CT Humanities
Connecticut Humanities, the statewide, nonprofit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), has awarded The Witness Stones Project a $7,800 CT Cultural Fund Operating Support Grant (CTCFOSG). The grant will be used to diversify and enlarge the Project’s student audience. The Witness Stones Project was one of 624 organizations in Connecticut that was awarded…
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The Witness Stones Project Receives Connecticut Humanities “American Rescue Plan” COVID Relief Funding
Connecticut Humanities, the statewide, nonprofit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), has awarded the Witness Stones Project a $10,000 CTH SHARP Capacity Grant to support staff development that would allow the Project to broaden and diversity the student audience it serves. The Project provide research assistance, specialized curriculum, and professional teacher development…
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Poets Marilyn Nelson, Rhonda M. Ward, Antoinette Brim-Bell, and Kate Rushin and Their Witness Stones Project Collaboration
The poets’ collaborative project appears in the the November 2021 issue of Poetry magazine. The poems were commissioned by the Witness Stones Old Lyme Affiliate and were debuted at the June 4, 2021, Witness Stones Installation in Old Lyme. We invite you to read the interview about the collaboration and the full portfolio of poems: What…
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Witness Stones Project Executive Director Makes the Case for Teaching History
By Mark Pazniokas in the Connecticut Mirror on October 24, 2021 Guilford’s children are capable of absorbing hard lessons about an overlooked past,” [Culliton] said. “You read a book like ‘Disowning Slavery’ by Joanne Pope Mellish, and you read that book, and it’s not critical race theory,” Culliton said. “It is history of New England…
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WSP Looks Forward to Working with New Historic Deerfield President
The Greenfield Recorder on September 27, 2021 DEERFIELD — Historic Deerfield welcomed John Davis, the museum’s new president and CEO, earlier this month as he begins his job after being hired in May. Davis, the former provost and undersecretary for museums, education and research at the Smithsonian Institution, said in a press release that…
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Conservation Project Planned for West Hartford’s Historic Old North Cemetery
By Ronni Newton on We-Ha.com on September 23, 2021 A stroll through the Old North Cemetery on North Main Street in West Hartford reveals gravestones bearing many familiar names – names used for town roads, schools, and key landmarks – but it’s also quickly apparent that many of the stones are in a state of…
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Witness Stones Project Joins Northeast Slavery Records Collaborative
The Witness Stones Project is proud to join the Atlantic Black Box Project, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and Monmouth University as an organizational member of the Northeast Slavery Records Collaborative. The Northeast Slavery Records Collaborative (NSRC) develops and maintains an online searchable compilation of records, called the Northeast Slavery Records Index (NESRI).…