Events

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June 19, 2022: Juneteenth at the Pardee Morris House in New Haven

June 19, 2022: Witness Stones Project Installation Ceremony Honoring Essau and Grace in Wallingford, Connecticut

June 19, 2022, Witness Stones Project Installation Ceremony in West Hartford, Connecticut

June 18, 2022: Juneteenth Jazz & Poetry Celebration in Old Lyme, Connecticut

June 15, 2022: Witness Stones Project Lecture in Wallingford, Connecticut

June 13, 2022: Witness Stones Project Installation Ceremony Honoring Titus in Mansfield, Connecticut

June 7, 2022: Witness Stones Project Installation Ceremony Honoring Caesar in Woodstock, Connecticut

June 6, 2022: Witness Stones Project Installation Ceremony Honoring Abda and Hannah in Hartford, Connecticut

June 5, 2022: Witness Stones Project Installation Ceremony to Honor Peter Cesar in Simsbury, Connecticut

June 3, 2022: Witness Stones Project Installation Ceremony the Forgotten in Old Lyme, Connecticut

June 3, 2022: Witness Stones Project Installation Ceremony Honoring Cuff, Dinah, and Flora in Guilford, Connecticut

June 3, 2022: Witness Stones Project Installation Ceremony Honoring Cesar and Mundo in Hebron, Connecticut

June 2, 2022: Witness Stones Project Installation Ceremony Honoring Lucy and Lois in New Haven, Connecticut

May 31, 2022: Witness Stones Project Installation Ceremony Honoring Nimrod Benedict in Danbury, Connecticut

May 27, 2022: Witness Stones Project Installation Ceremony Honoring Romeo in Norwich, Connecticut

May 26, 2022: Witness Stones Project Installation Ceremony Honoring Demas Cape in Dayville, Connecticut

May 25, 2022: Witness Stones Project Installation Ceremony Honoring Cull Bush, Jr., and Jack in Cos Cob, Connecticut

May 23, 2022: Witness Stones Project Installation Ceremony Honoring Theophilus Niger in Madison, Connecticut

May 21, 2022: Witness Stones Project Installation Ceremony Honoring Titus Kent in Suffield, Connecticut

May 13, 2022: Witness Stones Project Installation Ceremony Honoring Caesar in Durham, Connecticut

May 7, 2022: Witness Stones Project Lecture in Wilton, Connecticut

April 29, 2022: Witness Stones Project Installation Ceremony Honoring Friday Truehart in Hopewell, New Jersey

April 23, 2022: Poetry Reading in Ridgefield, Connecticut

March 28, 2022: “Why Venture Smith’s Life Mattered” Lecture in Guilford, Connecticut

March 24, 2022: “Shining a Light” Lecture in Greenwich, Connecticut

March 3 – April 28, 2022: Online Classes Offered by Witness Stones West Hartford

February 10-24, 2022: Black History Online Education Classes 

January 13, 2022: “Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds: A History of Slavery in New England” Lecture in Guilford, Connecticut

November 10, 2021: Witness Stones Project Lecture in Branford, Connecticut

November 4, 2021: “Yale University and the Politics of Slavery” Lecture in Guilford, Connecticut

October 5, 2021: “Religion, Race, and Slavery in Colonial New England” Lecture in Guilford, Connecticut

June 19, 2021: Witness Stones Project Installation Ceremony in West Hartford, Connecticut

June 19, 2021: Witness Stones Project Installation Ceremony in Suffield, Connecticut

June 8, 2021: Witness Stones Project Installation Ceremony in Madison, Connecticut

June 4, 2021: Witness Stones Project Installation Ceremony in Old Lyme, Connecticut

June 3, 2021: Witness Stones Project Installation Ceremony in Killingly, Connecticut

June 2, 2021: Witness Stones Project Installation Ceremony in New Haven, Connecticut

June 1, 2021: Witness Stones Project Installation Ceremony in Guilford, Connecticut

May 27, 2021: Witness Stones Project Installation Ceremony in Greenwich, Connecticut
May 20, 2021: “Oral History and the African American Experience” Lecture in Guilford, Connecticut

May 1, 2021: Witness Stones Project Installation Ceremony in Salisbury, Connecticut

April 21, 2021: “The Three Faces of Slavery in Connecticut” Lecture in Guilford, Connecticut

April 15, 2021: Witness Stones Project Lecture in Hartford, Connecticut

March 11, 2021: “Equity and Social Justice” Lecture in Guilford, Connecticut 

February 28, 2021: “Grace and Hope” Teachers’ Talk in Greenwich, Connecticut

February 24, 2021: “Finding Slavery in Northwest Connecticut” Lecture in Salisbury, Connecticut

February 18, 2021: “Honoring The Silent: Documenting African American & Native American History In Connecticut” Lecture in Norwalk, Connecticut

February 11, 2021: “How the Aftermath of the Civil War Helps Us Understand Trumpism” Lecture in Guilford, Connecticut

February 10, 2021: “Understanding Slavery in the North” Lecture in New Haven, Connecticut

January 28, 2021: “Remapping New England: Monuments, Markers, and Collective Memory” Panel Discussion

August 3, 2020: “Teaching Hard History” Lecture

August 1, 202o: Witness Stones Project Installation Ceremony in Madison, Connecticut

June 26, 2020: Witness Stones Project Installation Ceremony in West Hartord, Connecticut

October 30, 2019: Witness Stones Project Installation Ceremony in West Hartford, Connecticut

June 23, 2019: Juneteenth Celebration in Guilford, Connecticut

February 21, 2018: Witness Stones Project Book Club Launch in Guilford, Connecticut

November 2, 2017: Witness Stones Project Installation Ceremony in Guilford, Connecticut