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Suffield Academy Students Recover the Lives of Barbara and Lewis Butler

WSP · May 5, 2023 ·

Students from Suffield Academy shared their research on Barbara and Lewis Butler at the April 2023 meeting of the Suffield Historical Society. They share their presentation slides here.


Stonington Installation Ceremony Program

WSP · Apr 28, 2023 ·

Ceremony in Rye Honors Memory of Enslaved People Once Forced to Work in Hudson Valley

WSP · Apr 28, 2023 ·

By Lee Danuff on News12 New Jersey on April 28, 2023

A historic ceremony was held to honor the memory of enslaved people who were once forced to work in the Hudson Valley.

Local and state leaders showed up for a special stone installation at the Knapp House in Rye Thursday. Continue reading.

Honoring Rose and Jack in Rye, New York

WSP · Apr 27, 2023 ·

On April 27, 2023, students from the School of the Holy Child and the Rye Historical Society gathered the community to share the stories of Rose and Jack to place Witness Stones in their memory.

  • Students from School of the Holy Child
  • Students from School of the Holy Child with Faculty Member Kathleen Glatthaar Lozano
  • Students from School of the Holy Child with Head of School Colleen Pettus
  • Witness Stones Project Executive Director Dennis Culliton with Former Rye Historical Society Executive Director Sheri Jordan
  • Alison Relyea from the Rye Historical Society
  • School of the Holy Child Head of School Colleen Pettus, Holy Child History Faculty Member Kathleen Gltthaar Lozano, and Witness Stones Project Executive Director Dennis Culliton
  • NY State Senator Shelley Mayer with Holy Child Students
  • Installation Ceremony
  • Witness Stones
  • NY State Senator Shelley Mayer with Holy Child Students
  • NY State Senator Shelley Mayer with Holy Child Students
  • Holy Child Students with History Faculty Member Kathleen Glatthaar Lozano
  • Holy Child Students
  • Holy Child Students after the installation
  • Holy Child Head of School Colleen Pettus with students and family
  • Holy Child Students after the installation
  • Witness Stones Project Advisor, Historian and Genealogist Teresa Vega
  • Installation Ceremony
  • School of the Holy Child Head of School Colleen Pettus
  • Lisa Irvin on behalf of New York State Assemblyman Steven Otis
  • Witness Stones Project Executive Director Dennis Culliton
  • Researcher Pam McGuire
  • Witness Stones Project Advisor, Historian and Genealogist Teresa Vega
  • Holy Child Students
  • Holy Child Students
  • NY State Senator Shelley Mayer
  • The Reverend Tim Wiggins

Witness Stones Project Receives CT Cultural Fund Operating Support Grant from CT Humanities

WSP · Apr 12, 2023 ·

The Witness Stones Project was recently awarded a $6900 CT Cultural Fund Operating Support Grant from CT Humanities (CTH). CT Cultural Fund Operating Support Grants assist organizations as they recover from the pandemic and maintain and grow their ability to serve their community and the public.

Witness Stones Project Co-Founder and Executive Director Dennis Culliton says that the CT Cultural Fund Grant will enhance the Witness Stones Project’s ability to serve all interested communities across the state, regardless of the local resources.

The Witness Stones Project was one of 723 organizations in Connecticut receiving a CT Cultural Fund Operating Support Grant. Totaling more than $8.5M, these grants are part of a two-year, $30.7M investment in arts, humanities, and cultural nonprofits by the CT General Assembly and approved by Governor Ned Lamont.

This CT Cultural Fund Operating Support Grant is provided to the Witness Stones Project from CT Humanities, with funding from the Connecticut State Department of Economic and Community Development/Connecticut Office of the Arts (COA) from the Connecticut State Legislature.

CT Humanities (CTH) is an independent, nonprofit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. CTH connects people to the humanities through grants, partnerships, and collaborative programs. CTH projects, administration, and program development are supported by state and federal matching funds, community foundations, and gifts from private sources. Learn more by visiting cthumanities.org.

The Connecticut Office of the Arts (COA) is the state agency charged with fostering the health of Connecticut’s creative economy. Part of the state’s Department of Economic and Community Development, the COA is funded by the State of Connecticut and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Thank You for Support of Church Program

WSP · Mar 13, 2023 ·

Letter from the Reverend Jan Gregory-Charpentier and Tony Jones to the Westerly Sun on March 13, 2023

On behalf of the entire Kingston Congregational Church and our Kingston Witness Stones Project task force, we want to offer a tremendous “thank you” for all of the efforts in helping to promote our Witness to History event on Saturday, March 4. It was a smashing success with broad community attendance!

Thank you all for the support of Dr. Christy Clark-Pujara’s timely presentation. Many attendees expressed that they were grateful they came.

The writers are senior pastor and communications director, respectively, of Kingston Congregational Church.

Witness Stones Project, Telling the Stories of the Enslaved Across Connecticut

WSP · Nov 22, 2022 ·

Survey of Connecticut Slave Laws, 1643 – 1848

WSP · Nov 17, 2022 ·

Praise from Clint Smith

WSP · Nov 15, 2022 ·

Photo credit: Carletta Girma

We are honored to have our work recognized by Clint Smith in The Atlantic. In an interview with Atlantic editor Isabel Fattal, the best-selling author of How the Word Is Passed said:

There are examples of communities in the U.S. that are not waiting for the government to tell them that they should build a memorial or they should create sites of public memory. I think one of the most compelling is a group in Connecticut that’s doing a Witness Stones Project, based on the stumbling-stones project in Germany. Middle- and high-school students are placing stones to mark the spaces where enslaved people lived, worked, and worshipped.

We invite you to read the full article here.

 

Historic Deerfield Unveils Witness Stones Map

WSP · Oct 12, 2022 ·

For more information about the Witness Stones Project at Historic Deerfield can be found here.

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