Category: In The Media
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Students Find and Share an Untold History of the Enslaved People of West Hartford
By Ronni Newton in We-Ha.Com on October 24, 2019 History involves the study of what happened in the past, but we all know there is more than one side to most stories. There are also stories that have yet to be told. When Tracey Wilson and Liz Devine started the Witness Stones Project in…
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A Memorial Project Is Rediscovering Stories of Slavery in Connecticut
By Erik Ofgang in Connecticut Magazine on July 24, 2019. Shortly before the Revolutionary War, an enslaved Connecticut man named Jeffrey Brace was beaten unconscious by his new owner, John Burwell of Milford. Burwell struck Brace with his fists, legs and a chair. In a written account years later, Brace recalled that one blow to his head during the…
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Dennis Culliton Receives Social Studies Special Projects Award
Guilford Public Schools News and Announcements on June 12, 2019 Dennis Culliton, social studies teacher at Adams Middle School, has received the Special Projects Award from the Connecticut Council for the Social Studies (CCSS) for his work in leading the development of the Witness Stones Project and its application in the classroom. The award recognizes…
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National Recognition for Witness Stones in Teaching Tolerance
Please read the feature article, “Bearing Witness” by Jenifer Frank, in the Spring 2019 issue of Teaching Tolerance: Hana started her school paper with a description of Guilford’s town green—and for good reason. The beautiful, centuries-old space is the hub of this Connecticut coastal community. Residents like Hana, who attends Adams Middle School in Guilford,…
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Guilford Project Researching Slavery Finds Descendant Living in Connecticut
By Ed Stannard in the New Haven Register on November 4, 2018 GUILFORD — Patricia Wilson Pheanious was sitting on the porch of her Ashford home when her husband came out and told her that someone was on the phone and wanted to talk about her ancestry. Dennis Culliton, co-founder of the Witness Stones Project, in which…
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Remembrance Deferred
By Yonatan Greenberg in the New Journal at Yale on February 16, 2018. Guilford, a town of twenty-thousand half an hour north of New Haven, is a place that loves its past. There are three historical societies, and in the town center, by the chocolatier and tea shop, historical markers nearly outnumber street signs. A…
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Through Local History, A Stronger Sense Of Place
Witness Stones Project Founder an Executive Director Dennis Culliton joined Leah Glaser, Professor of History and Coordinator of the Public History Program at Central Connecticut State University, Chuck Arning, National Park Service Interpretive Ranger and A/V Specialist, John Tuohy, author and historian for the city of Ansonia, Connecticut, and Regan Miner, consultant for the city…
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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…