Category: Witness Stones
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Suffield Academy Students Recover the Lives of Barbara and Lewis Butler
Students from Suffield Academy shared their research on Barbara and Lewis Butler at the April 2023 meeting of the Suffield Historical Society. They share their presentation slides here.
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Ceremony in Rye Honors Memory of Enslaved People Once Forced to Work in Hudson Valley
By Lee Danuff on News12 New Jersey on April 28, 2023 A historic ceremony was held to honor the memory of enslaved people who were once forced to work in the Hudson Valley. Local and state leaders showed up for a special stone installation at the Knapp House in Rye Thursday. Continue reading.
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Honoring Rose and Jack in Rye, New York
On April 27, 2023, students from the School of the Holy Child and the Rye Historical Society gathered the community to share the stories of Rose and Jack to place Witness Stones in their memory.
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Witness Stones Project Receives CT Cultural Fund Operating Support Grant from CT Humanities
The Witness Stones Project was recently awarded a $6900 CT Cultural Fund Operating Support Grant from CT Humanities (CTH). CT Cultural Fund Operating Support Grants assist organizations as they recover from the pandemic and maintain and grow their ability to serve their community and the public. Witness Stones Project Co-Founder and Executive Director Dennis Culliton…
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The Witness Stones Project Comes to Camp
By Mike Sherman on Camp Woodstock YMCA In 1740 the enslaved persons of Ebenezer Lyon, including one named Crumbo, built a stone dam for a grist mill on the outlet stream of Black Pond along what is now called Camp Road. In 1760 the dam harnessed the water to operate the bellows for one of…
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Thank You for Support of Church Program
Letter from the Reverend Jan Gregory-Charpentier and Tony Jones to the Westerly Sun on March 13, 2023 On behalf of the entire Kingston Congregational Church and our Kingston Witness Stones Project task force, we want to offer a tremendous “thank you” for all of the efforts in helping to promote our Witness to History event…
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Game Changer: Witness Stones Project
By Dennis Culliton in Connecticut Explored, Winter 2022-23 Issue When I was a child growing up in southern Massachusetts I was fascinated by New England history and curious about the colonial and early American houses that surrounded me. I would close my eyes and try to imagine the lives of the people who lived in…
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Witness Stones Project Honors History of Enslaved People in Connecticut
By Eva Li in the Choate News on December 19, 2022 In recent months, towns across Connecticut have erected several permanent markers to memorialize the lives of enslaved men and women. The Witness Stones Project, founded in 2017 by Mr. Dennis Culliton, is a nonprofit dedicated to restoring history and honoring the humanity of the…
