Letter: Thanks for supporting the Port Marker

Posted 3/2/23

To the editor:

The Bristol Middle Passage Port Markers Project Committee has installed a temporary sign at Independence Park at the northwest corner of the park, where ultimately a permanent …

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Letter: Thanks for supporting the Port Marker

Posted

To the editor:

The Bristol Middle Passage Port Markers Project Committee has installed a temporary sign at Independence Park at the northwest corner of the park, where ultimately a permanent memorial will be installed. This memorial will honor the people of African and Indigenous background who were enslaved by the Trans-Atlantic human trade in which the town of Bristol played a historic role. This site in the Park was made with public input last year.

We wish to thank our Town Council for its approval and support for this, and to thank our Town Administrator and Town Clerk for assisting us with this first step of our installation.

The final memorial will go through a process of receiving proposals from RI artists that will be juried by an independent diverse panel of professionals. The finalists selected will be publicly known and presented with input from our community in choosing the final design sculpture memorial. The BMPPMP Committee will soon begin this process of receiving applications.

Lastly, the Committee wishes to thank our own DPW for their tremendous help this past Saturday, enabling us to have a brief launch ceremony for this project. Our State and local officials and representatives were on hand in support, along with members of the Pokanoket Nation. We are together in this memorial tribute, marking an important role in the history of our town.

Stephan Brigidi

Highland Rd.

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