Participating Towns
Ridgefield Students to Research Stories of People Enslaved by One of Town’s Founding Families
By Kendra Baker in the Ridgefield Press on June 23, 2022
RIDGEFIELD — Eighth graders in town will embark on a project-based learning experience next fall that not only teaches historical inquiry skills, but allows them to honor former enslaved residents whose stories have not been fully untold.
The students will work with the Witness Stones Project — an organization that works with schools and community groups to “restore the history and honor the humanity” of enslaved individuals in Connecticut — to tell the story of two enslaved people from Ridgefield’s past. Continue reading.
Witness Stones Project Installation Ceremony Honoring Theophilus Niger
Monday, May 23, 2022
8:15 a.m.
Hosted by the Country School at
Horse Pond Park
Madison, Connecticut
The Country School will bring the Madison community together to remember and honor Theophilus Niger and to place a Witness Stone in his memory.
