Tag: #OldLymeCT
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Witness Stones Old Lyme Installs 16 Additional Plaques Marking Enslavement Sites
On LymeLine.com on June 3, 2022 OLD LYME – The Old Lyme Witness Stones Project is installing 16 new Witness Stones—historical plaques commemorating the lives of enslaved and indentured African Americans and […]
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Witness Stones Project Installation Ceremony Honoring the Forgotten in Old Lyme
Friday, June 3, 2022 10:00 a.m. Hosted by Lyme-Old Lyme Middle School at The Old Lyme-Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library 2 Library Lane, Old Lyme, Connecticut The community is invited […]
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Poetry Reading: Long-Silenced Voices
Poetry Reading: Long-Silenced Voices Co-sponsored with Ridgefield Community Partners April 23, 2022 · 2 – 4 p.m.The Meetinghouse, Ridgefield, Connecticut Inspired by the Witness Stones Old Lyme Project, which honors […]
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A Special Service at the First Congregational Church of Old Lyme
On February 20, 2022, Antoinette Brim-Bell, Marilyn Nelson, Kate Rushin & Rhonda Ward, the poets that gave voice to some of the enslaved people who lived in Lyme, read their […]
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Poets Marilyn Nelson, Rhonda M. Ward, Antoinette Brim-Bell, and Kate Rushin and Their Witness Stones Project Collaboration
The poets’ collaborative project appears in the the November 2021 issue of Poetry magazine. The poems were commissioned by the Witness Stones Old Lyme Affiliate and were debuted at the June […]
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Witness Stones Celebration Highlighted Installation of Plaques Marking Sites of Enslavement in Old Lyme
OLD LYME –The Old Lyme Witness Stones Partnership held an installation ceremony last Friday, June 4, celebrating the town’s newly installed Witness Stones—historical plaques commemorating the lives of 14 individuals, […]
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Honoring the Forgotten
By Jim Altman on Fox61 News OLD LYME, Conn. — The Witness Stones Project, a non-profit initiative that honors enslaved people that worked and lived in Connecticut centuries ago […]
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Witness Stones Dedicated to 14 Enslaved in Old Lyme
By Cate Hewitt in CTExaminer on June 4, 2021 OLD LYME — Cato, Lewis Lewia, Humphrey, Caeser, Jack Howard, Jenny Freeman, Luce, Crusa, Nancy Freeman, Temperance Still, Jane, Pompey Freeman, Samuel Freeman, […]
