Category: Witness Stones
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Leadership Transition
After many years of dedicated service, our Co-Founder and Executive Director, Dennis Culliton, has decided to step down from his current role. Dennis founded the Project as a teacher at Elisabeth C. Adams Middle School in Guilford, Connecticut. Over seven years, he has worked with more than 100 schools, churches, museums, and civic organizations across…
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Juneteenth Joyfully Celebrated at FloGris Museum with Jazz & Poetry
In LymeLine.com on June 16, 2024 OLD LYME—On Saturday, June 22, Witness Stones Old Lyme presented a celebratory event filled with jazz and poetry on the lawn of the Florence Griswold Museum. This event honored Juneteenth, a federal holiday celebrating the emancipation of enslaved African Americans, and offered a vibrant fusion of music and spoken word.…
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HHS to Unveil Memorial Markers During New Paltz Juneteenth Jubilee
On ILoveNY.com on June 18, 2024 New Paltz, NY – As part of the organization’s commitment to telling the stories of the marginalized inhabitants of Historic Huguenot Street (HHS), the museum has partnered with the Witness Stones Project, Inc. (WSP), based in Connecticut. Similar to the German Stolpersteine Project that commemorates victims of the Nazis,…
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Somerset County Presents 2024 Historic Preservation And History Awards
By Alexis Tarrazi on Patch on June 13, 2024 SOMERVILLE, NJ — Somerset County honored the winners of the Somerset County Historic Preservation and History Awards for their excellence in preserving local history. The awards recognize individuals and organizations that support the preservation of Somerset County’s history and historic resources through preservation or restoration projects, publications, leadership efforts, or…
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Somerville, South Bound Brook Projects Recognized with Somerset County History Awards
By Ethan Mannello in MyCentralJersey.com on June 13, 2024 The Somerset County Cultural and Heritage Commission and the county commissioners announced the winners of the Historic Preservation and History Awards. Davie-Lyn Jones-Evans, a fifth grade teacher at Somerville’s Van Derveer Elementary School and a local historian, won the history publication award. The award is given to…
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Fifth-Grade Teacher at Somerville’s Van Derveer School Recognized for Project on Local Black History
By Rod Hirsch in Tap Into Somerset on June 12, 2024 SOMERVILLE, NJ – Somerset County has announced the winners of the Somerset County Historic Preservation and History Awards for their excellence in preserving local history, including Davie-Lyn Jones-Evans, a fifth-grade teacher at the Van Derveer School in Somerville. The awards recognize individuals and organizations that support the preservation…
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Juneteenth Jubilee in New Paltz
By Terence P. Ward in HudsonValley1 on June 10, 2024 The fourth annual Juneteenth jubilee celebration of triumph and history and learning about Juneteenth with the New Paltz community will take place on Wednesday, June 19. It will begin at 10 a.m. with a one-hour commemoration ceremony at the New Paltz Rural Cemetery. It will be followed by a community…
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Wooster Students Honor Enslaved Danbury Woman Who Gained Her Freedom
By Kendra Baker in the NewsTimes on June 8, 2024 DANBURY — Patience, an enslaved woman in Danbury who gained her freedom in 1793, became the third individual memorialized as part of a research project led by Wooster School students. A stone commemorating Patience was placed at St. James Episcopal Church last week, following weeks of research by…
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Choate Commemorates Life of Mother Enslaved at Wallingford’s Historic Houses
By Christian Metzger in CT Insider on June 3, 2024 WALLINGFORD — Choate Rosemary Hall held a ceremony to commemorate two witness stones memorializing the lives of two slaves once held at Squire Stanley house, one of the oldest buildings in Wallingford that is now incorporated into the school’s campus grounds. Kate and Mina,…
