A special thank you to:
Dr. Jeffrey Partridge, Professor of English at CT State Community College – Capital, and Director of the Hartford Heritage Project
Our TAs: Aliyah Freeman-Johnson and Joy Lee
Pastor Cleo Graham, Faith Congregational Church
Melvin Graham, Faith Congregational Church
Regina Waters, Faith Congregational Church
Fannie Irene Pittman, Faith Congregational Church
Barbara Wiggins, Faith Congregational Church
Ann Jennings, Faith Congregational Church
Jeanne Murchison, Faith Congregational Church
Patricia Gray, Faith Congregational Church
Alice Lumpkin, Faith Congregational Church
Yvonne Brown, Faith Congregational Church
Norma Sproul, Faith Congregational Church
Dr. Orisade Awodola and her family: the descendants of James Pennington
Noah Humphrey, M.Div., Yale; spearheaded effort to grant James Pennington his honorary degree posthumously
Jackie Mandyck, Executive Director of the IQuilt Partnership
Sally Whipple, Executive Director of the Old State House’s Connecticut Democracy Center
Dr. Scott Gac, Professor of History and American Studies at Trinity College
Frank Mitchell, Nutmeg Pulpit Exhibit Curator
Lyle Cairdeas, Community History Project Manager at the CT Museum of Culture and History
Christine Jewell, consultant for the Ancient Burying Ground in partnership with Hartford’s Center Church
Mary Falvey,Hartford Preservation Alliance
Elizabeth Shapiro, DECD Director of Arts, Preservation, and Museums
Todd Levine, Connecticut Freedom Trail Coordinator
Christina Bleyer, Trinity College’s Watkinson Library
Priyanka Panjwani, Preservation Architect
Professor Ira Hessmer, Architectural Engineering Technology Program Coordinator, CT State Capital
Monica Mills, Amistad Center for Art & Culture, Wadsworth Atheneum
Nick Lebron, Catholic Charities, former City Council Member
Fiona Vernal, Professor of History at UConn
Andre Keitt, Center Church
Rachel Gonzalez,CT Humanities and 250 Commission