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A Tangled Story: Witness Stones Project Celebrates Placement of New Plaques Honoring Enslaved

WSP · Jun 7, 2023 ·

Connecticut Poet Laureate Antoinette Brim-Bell reading reflections in verse. Photo by Liz Frankel and Carolyn Wakeman.

In LymeLine.com on June 7, 2023

OLD LYME — On June 2, a large audience, along with musicians, singers, genealogists, poets, and descendants, gathered on the lawn of the Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library to honor the lives of enslaved persons who lived in Old Lyme.

The Old Lyme Witness Stones Project, with the support of its many local partners, recently installed new historical plaques on a grassy triangle on Old Shore Road. The plaques detail the names and stories of eight enslaved African-Americans and indentured Indigenous people, who lived and labored in the Black Hall section of the historic town of Lyme in the 17th and 18th centuries. Continue reading.

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