Category: Participating Towns
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Wallingford Historic Preservation Trust Becomes WSP Affiliate
The Wallingford Historic Preservation Trust is the owner and caretaker of the Royce House and the American Silver Museum at the Franklin Johnson Mansion. Its mission is threefold: 1. To acquire, preserve, interpret and educate the public about historic structures and culture in early Wallingford. 2. To feature the 1840-1980 period of silver manufacturing in Wallingford and…
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Historic Deerfield Joins 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 Historic Deerfield. The museum will be using the Project’s curriculum and landscape markers to expand their teaching of the history of…
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Witness Stones Will Expand to New Schools and Add New Collaborations
By Jesse Williams published on ZIP06.COM on January 5, 2021. GUILFORD — The Witness Stones Project, Inc, which had already seen significant expansion since retired Guilford social studies teacher Dennis Culliton and therapist Doug Nygren launched it in 2019, is set to grow even more in 2021 as conversations around Black Lives Matter protests…
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Henry James Memorial School Joins Witness Stones Project
The Henry James Memorial School in Simsbury, Connecticut, will be using the Project’s curriculum and landscape markers to expand their teaching of the history of slavery in colonial Connecticut. Henry James Memorial School‘s mission statement, “Connections, Challenge, Character,” is a reflection of the middle school’s philosophy that is essential to the experience that they provide…
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Witness Stones Project to Partner with Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum 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 the Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum in Skillman, New Jersey. The Museum will be supporting the introduction of the Project’s curriculum and…
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Witness Stones Project Memorial for Tamer
By Bill Sullivan, Suffield Historical Society, published in the Suffield Observer on October 30, 2020. The Suffield Historical Society hosted Dennis Culliton, chair and co-founder of the Witness Stones Project, during three online classes during October. Using a document-based approach to understanding slavery in colonial New England, Culliton helped the class build a narrative about…
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Seventh Graders Are Engaged in Several Projects around Black History and Heroes
From the Foote School News published September 17, 2020 Humanities teachers Sheila Lavey and Skye Lee made an exciting connection with the Witness Stones Project. Modeled after the Stolperstein in Europe—stone cubes with the names and life dates of victims of Nazi extermination—the Witness Stones Project places similar cubes at norther locations where individuals were enslaved. Seventh graders…
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Witness Stones Project Takes Root In West Hartford
The Witness Stones Project was present for another milestone today when the Witness Stones West Hartford Project a committee of the Noah Webster House & West Hartford Historical Society along with West Hartford Public Schools held their first installation ceremony honoring George and Jude. Thank you to Tracey Wilson and Liz Devine for shepherding this project, teacher Sean…
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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…
