Tag: #SalisburyCT
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Commemorating History: James Mars Witness Stone Ceremony in Norfolk
By Shaw Israel Izikson in the Winsted Phoenix on May 1, 2021. NORFOLK — A ceremony was held for the unveiling of a Witness Stone for James Mars on Saturday, May 1. According to the Witness Stone project’s website at witnessstonesproject.org, a Witness Stone is a marker that recalls an enslaved individual at a site…
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Salisbury School Students Celebrate James Mars Day
Students at the Salisbury School brought the community together on May 1, 2021, to share their research and reflections on James Mars. Their work was part of a project-based learning course entitled, “Searching for Slavery in Northwest Connecticut,” taught by History Faculty Rhonan Mokriski. The students documented the day with a new website and film.…
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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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The Library and Searching for Slavery
By James King, Library Director at Salisbury School, published by the Atlantic Black Box Project on March 5, 2021 James Mars didn’t complain of “many things,” but one thing troubled him his entire life: the lack of “opportunity to go to school as much as I should, for all the books I ever had in…
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Talking About Preservation: Finding Slavery in Northwest Connecticut
Preservation Connecticut hosted Salisbury School history teacher Rhonan Mokriski and WSP’s Dennis Culliton to discuss a project-based learning course in public history focused on uncovering the lives of free and enslaved African American families in Northwest Connecticut. We invite you to watch 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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Searching for Slavery in the Northwest Corner of Connecticut
By Rhonan Mokriski on The Atlantic Black Box Project on August 1, 2020 I teach at an independent school in the sleepy Connecticut town of Salisbury (pop 3,598 in 2018). I have been living here for 24 years. My lens has been largely focused on world history – particularly China – so beyond the normal…
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“Look at the Whole Story”: CT Educators Rethink Lessons on Racism, Slavery
By Meghan Friedmann in the New Haven Register on July 31, 2020 A team of educators hopes to empower teachers to educate their students about racism and slavery in southern New England – and to do so correctly. A nationally-renowned scholar, two Connecticut teachers and a state representative, all of whom advocate for a reconfiguration…