Category: Student Work
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Student Film Screening: Looking for Color
From the Atlantic Black Box Project on May 22, 2021 Salisbury, Connecticut: Students from Salisbury School’s Searching for Slavery class, in conjunction with the Upper Housatonic Heritage Area, are excited to screen the premiere of their film, Looking for Color on May 26, 2021, at 7:00 p.m. for Noble Horizons. Among several class projects, this…
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Noble Horizons to Premiere Film by Salisbury School Students
From the Litchfield County Times on May 19, 2021 SALISBURY — Noble Horizons, a senior retirement community at 17 Cobble Road, will premiere Coloring Our Past, a film made by Salisbury School students in Rhonan Mokriski’s 2020-21 Searching for Slavery class, on May 26 at 7 p.m. The film chronicles their discovery of the lost stories of…
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James Mars Day
Salisbury School students honor James Mars’s legacy.
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Black American Slave James Mars’s Story in Virtual Program
The Litchfield County Times on March 25, 2021 SALISBURY — Noble Horizons will host “The Life and Times of James Mars: The Story of a Connecticut Slave,” a virtual presentation, on April 1 at 7:15 p,m. Registration for this free Zoom program is at noblehorizons.org. Salisbury history teacher Rhonan Mokriski and his students will discuss their…
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Searching for Slavery in Northwest Connecticut
Students in Rhonan Mokriski’s “Searching for Slavery in Northwest Connecticut” class at the Salisbury School are becoming public historians.
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Kingswood Oxford Students Make Important Progress in Witness Stones Project
In the Kingswood Oxford News published on January 21, 2021. The Witness Stones Project is an ongoing one in the Kingswood Oxford School history department each year that engages the students in authentic, real-world learning. The project seeks to honor the humanity and contributions of the enslaved people who helped build the community we live…
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West Hartford Students Ask for Renaming of New Street to Honor Peleg Nott
Kingswood Oxford students, Regina Miller ‘22 and Aliza Sadiq ‘22 wrote a proposal to the West Hartford Town Council, in which they outlined their reasons to rename New Street in Blue Black Square after Peleg Nott. We invite you to read it here.
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Salisbury School Students Chronicle the Lives of African Americans
A blog on the Atlantic Black Box Project, started on December 24, 2020. History teacher Rhonan Mokriski and his students at the Salisbury School have been pursuing a project-based learning course in public history focused on uncovering the lives of free and enslaved African American families in northwestern Connecticut. Continue reading.
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Peleg Nott’s Story
We invite you to listen to this podcast from Kingswood Oxford students Garrett Gallup and Isaias Wooden: giddyup · Peleg Nott’s Story- History Podcast
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Country School Students Record, Honor Life of Enslaved Madison Resident
By Jesse Williams in Zip06.com on July 8, 2020 MADISON — After months of research, writing, and conversations, students from The Country School (TCS) have finished up their research on one of Madison’s enslaved residents as part of the Witness Stones Project, with plans to come together and install a marker in front of the…