Category: Participating Towns
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Witness Stones Project to Partner with School of the Holy Child to Recover the History of the Enslaved
The Witness Stones Project, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to restore the history and honor the humanity of the enslaved individuals who helped build our communities, today announced a new affiliation with School of the Holy Child. The college-preparatory school in Rye, New York, will be using the Project’s curriculum and landscape markers to…
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Trinity on the Green to Partner with the Witness Stones Project
The Witness Stones Project, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to restore the history and honor the humanity of the enslaved individuals who helped build our communities, today announced a new affiliation with Trinity on the Green. The Episcopal church sin New Haven, Connecticut, will be using the Project’s research and landscape markers to expand…
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Witness Stones Project to Partner with St. Thomas’s Day School
The Witness Stones Project, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to restore the history and honor the humanity of the enslaved individuals who helped build our communities, today announced a new affiliation with St. Thomas’s Day School. The school in New Haven, Connecticut, will be using the Project’s curriculum and landscape markers to expand their…
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Witness Stones Project to Partner with Woodstock Middle School
The Witness Stones Project, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to restore the history and honor the humanity of the enslaved individuals who helped build our communities, today announced a new affiliation with Woodstock Middle School. The school in Woodstock, Connecticut, will be using the Project’s curriculum and landscape markers to expand their teaching of…
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Witness Stones to Partner with Stonington Middle School
The Witness Stones Project, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to restore the history and honor the humanity of the enslaved individuals who helped build our communities, today announced a new affiliation with Stonington Middle School. The school in Stonington, Connecticut, will be using the Project’s curriculum and landscape markers to expand their teaching of…
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Grant to Fund Important Lesson at RHAM
By Traci Hastings, in The Chronicle Dec. 8—HEBRON — A grant from the Hebron Greater Together Community Fund is being used to build awareness of history and diversity at RHAM Middle School. In December, middle school students will begin a ” multidisciplinary exploration” through Witness Stones Inc., a nonprofit educational resource, funded through the grant.…
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Wilton Witness Stones Collaboration
Wilton Witness Stones is a collaboration of churches from Wilton, Norwalk, and Westport, Connecticut seeking to explore the history of slavery in colonial Connecticut and honor the humanity of the enslaved individuals who helped build our communities. Working with the Witness Stones Project, Inc., youth will gather with community leaders to learn and then compose…
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Witness Stones Project to Partner with Wooster School
The Witness Stones Project today announced a new affiliation with the Wooster School in Danbury, Connecticut. The college-preparatory school will be using the Project’s curriculum and landscape markers to expand their teaching of the history of slavery in Connecticut. Students will examine primary source documents, including property records, probate documents, and census data, in order…
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Witness Stones Project to Partner with Regional School District 4
The Witness Stones Project, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to restore the history and honor the humanity of the enslaved individuals who helped build our communities, today announced a new affiliation with Regional School District 4. The district will be using the Project’s curriculum and landscape markers to expand their teaching of the history…
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Witness Stones Project to Partner with CREC Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts in Hartford, Connecticut
The Witness Stones Project, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to restore the history and honor the humanity of the enslaved individuals who helped build our communities, today announced a new affiliation with CREC Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts. A generous grant from the William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund will allow the school to…