Category: In The Media
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Witness Stones West Hartford Receives West Hartford Greater Together Community Fund Award
By Ronni Newton on We-Ha.comi on July 28, 2021 The West Hartford Greater Together Community Fund, which announced in January plans to award the first $25,000 of grant money to local nonprofits, announced Wednesday that seven organizations have will receive awards in the inaugural cycle. The program, formed by The Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and administered…
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New Memorials First to Acknowledge Difficult Truth of Slaves in Greenwich
By Don Snyder in Greenwich Time on July 14, 2021 Memorials to victims of the Holocaust, known as “stolpersteine” or “stumbling blocks,” are found throughout Europe from Trondheim, Norway to Thessaloniki, Greece. More than 75,000 of these brass plaques, created by German artist Gunter Demnig, have been placed outside the former homes of the victims, whose…
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West Hartford’s Town Green Rededicated as ‘Unity Green’
By Ronni Newton on We-Ha.com on June 20, 2021 West Hartford’s second annual Juneteenth celebration, held over the weekend of June 19-20, 2021, was full of joy juxtaposed by serious messages and actions, with the observation culminating late Sunday morning as a crowd gathered for the rededication of the town’s green as Unity Green. West Hartford’s…
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Witness Stone Would Mark Location Where Slave Lived in Suffield
By Matthew P. Knox in the Journal Inquirer on June 15, 2021 SUFFIELD — Residents who walk by the corner of North Main Street and Bridge Street may soon stumble upon a new addition. A witness stone, a plaque 4 inches in length and width, is going to be embedded in the stone wall along the…
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West Hartford Prepares for Juneteenth
Dr. Tracey Wilson describes the Witness Stone work in Hartford on EyeWitness News 3. We invite you to watch here:
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West Hartford Town Council Approves Procedure for Honorary and Historic Renaming of Public Streets
By Sophie Christensen on We-Ha.com on June 9, 2021 In a January Letter to the Editor, Aliza Sadiq and Regina Miller (two Kingswood Oxford students) asked the West Hartford Town Council to rename New Street in Blue Back Square. They wish to honor Peleg Nott, who had been enslaved in West Hartford but according to research was…
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Commemorating the Lives of Enslaved People in Connecticut
By Tess Terribile and Nancy Nalpathanchil of Where We Live How should we remember painful events in our history? There are more than 70 Witness Stones installed throughout our state. The markers commemorate the lives of the enslaved people that lived in Connecticut. Witness Stones Project Executive Director Dennis Culliton joins Bill Sullivan of the Suffield…
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WSP’s Executive Director Receives a Beacon Award
Shore Publishing’s Beacon Awards recognize a few of the outstanding individuals who selflessly step up to help fulfill the Shoreline community’s promise as a place of opportunity, well-being, and safety for all. The Witness Stones Project Executive Director’s commendation noted: A retired teacher, [Dennis Culliton] continues to work on the Witness Stones Project, listening humbly…
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New England’s Abolitionist History At Odds With Racist Realities
Witness Stones Project Co-Chair Pat Wilson Pheanious was a guest on a Vermont Public Radio radio series produced by the New England News Collaborative and America Amplified. The focus of the episode was New England’s direct involvement and complicity in slavery and white supremacy. We invite you to listen to the program here: Racism in New England.
