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Juneteenth Commemoration to Feature Jazz Quartet, Poets at Florence Griswold in Old Lyme

WSP · Jun 17, 2022 ·

Nat Reeves

By Emilia Otte in the Connecticut Examiner on June 17, 2022

OLD LYME — The town will be ushering in Juneteenth with a mixture of jazz and poetry led by a well-known jazz quartet and four Connecticut poets who will be reading verses in commemoration of slaves who lived in Old Lyme.

The event is a partnership with the Old Lyme Witness Stones Project. The project is modeled after Berlin’s Stolpersteine, or “Stumbling Stones” — individual plaques that appear throughout the city to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust. In Old Lyme, the organization has installed 30 brass plaques in different areas of the town as a way of honoring the lives of the enslaved people who once lived in the town. Continue reading.

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