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The MLK Mural Part I: Bristow and Freedom

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West Hartford’s MLK39 Racial Equity Mural. Photo credit: Ronni Newton (we-ha.com file photo)

By Witness Stones West Hartford Co-Chair Dr. Tracey Wilson in We-Ha.com on February 14, 2022

Journalist Yamiche Alcindor, speaking at the University of Hartford on Feb. 8, 2022, said that “Freedom is never won, it is always earned. … Each generation must fight for it to build the beloved community.”

The 2,200 square foot Martin Luther King mural painted in June 2021 helps us to keep the concept and reality of freedom alive in this community, in this generation. It reminds us that we stand on the shoulders of those who defined and redefined freedom in the past. Continue reading.

Students Find and Share an Untold History of the Enslaved People of West Hartford

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From left: Retired educators Denise deMello, Elizabeth Devine, and Town Historian Tracey Wilson serve as the co-directors of the Witness Stones Project. Pictured in front of the bronzed stones memorializing enslaved people in West Hartford in Old Center Cemetery on North Main Street. Photo credit: Lisa Brisson (we-ha.com file photo)

 

By Ronni Newton in We-Ha.Com on October 24, 2019

History involves the study of what happened in the past, but we all know there is more than one side to most stories.

There are also stories that have yet to be told.

When Tracey Wilson and Liz Devine started the Witness Stones Project in West Hartford, they wanted to find those stories, the stories about the lives of the enslaved people who are a part of the town’s history. People whose made contributions that few, if any, know about today. They wanted to acknowledge that slavery existed in West Hartford, and commemorate the lives of those who were enslaved while at the same time inspiring community conversation. Continue reading. 

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