Tag: #WiltonCT
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Connecticut Church Creates Interfaith Collaboration to Learn the State’s Slave History
By St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church on Episcopal News Service on June 22, 2023 During the COVID-19 pandemic, St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church in Wilton, Connecticut, began to explore the church’s complicity with racism since its founding in 1802. At its 2020 annual convention, The Episcopal Church in Connecticut adopted a resolution “to direct each Parish, Worshipping Community, and Intentional Episcopal…
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Congregants at St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church Reflect on the Witness Stones Project
“The story of the African-American people is the story of the settlement and growth of American itself, a universal tale that all people should experience.” —Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Beginning in October 2021, St. Matthew’s (through our Social Justice & Racial Healing group) began to explore how we might engage with The Witness Stones Project…
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Installation Ceremony Honoring John C. Wally
The community in Wilton gathered on June 10, 2023, to remember and honor John C. Wally. We invite you to click on the image before to read the full program.
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Remembering a Wilton Man’s Life that History Has Obscured —Emancipated Slave John C. Wally
By Steve Hudspeth in Good Morning Wilton on June 6, 2023 On Saturday, June 10 at 4 p.m. at the Wilton Historical Society, an important event will take place: a Witness Stone will be dedicated for the first time in Wilton. Here is its significance. How do you remember a life that history has obscured? In the case of those enslaved in Connecticut, slavery and…
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St. Matthews Church Brings Witness Stones Project to Wilton, Sharing Stories of CT’s Enslaved People
It is not wrong to go back for that which you have forgotten. – Akan proverb Through a collaboration of local faith communities, area youth in grades 6-9 will have the opportunity to explore and chronicle the history of slavery in Connecticut. In a series of workshops, participants will research historical documents and create a…
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Witness Stones Project Announces New Partnership in Wilton
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 Wilton Congregational Church. The church will be using the Project’s curriculum and landscape markers to expand their teaching of the history…
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St. Matthew’s Aims to Tell the Story of Wilton’s Forgotten Enslaved people
By J.D. Freda in The Hour on June 19, 2022 WILTON — St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church is committing itself to educating the community and paying tribute to the enslaved peoples of Wilton. The goal is to spend the remainder of the calendar year digging through historical land and personal records, with the help of the Wilton Historical…
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Witness Stones Project Announces New Partnership with St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church in Wilton
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 St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church. The congregation in Wilton, Connecticut, will be using the Project’s curriculum and landscape markers to expand their understanding…
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Wilton Witness Stones Collaboration
Wilton Witness Stones is a collaboration of churches from Wilton, Norwalk, and Westport, Connecticut seeking to explore the history of slavery in colonial Connecticut and honor the humanity of the enslaved individuals who helped build our communities. Working with the Witness Stones Project, Inc., youth will gather with community leaders to learn and then compose…
