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Written By John Mills

Middletown Press - April 6th, 2023

Our work to honor Prince Mortimer has made headlines in the Middletown Press newspaper! The article includes interviews of myself, Dr. Jesse Nasta of Wesleyan University and JR Carnegie-Hargreaves, the developer at the prior location of the Middletown Connecticut Ropewalk where Prince Mortimer worked in the 1700's!

The focus of the article is on our efforts to honor Prince Mortimer at the prior ropewalk location as well as our reasons for honoring him. Dr. Jesse Nasta summed it up best:

“We are marking what is not visible, and has, in fact, been erased from the landscape. Hopefully it will reshape how people see the streets they walk on every day, and we can have a conversation about what this history means today.”

The overall redevelopment effort will bring residential units and business space to Middletown, CT. It will cost close to $6 million to complete, which will include restoring the building’s exterior and making it more energy efficient. The project will also have 12,000 square feet of lower-level program and office space for “disadvantaged entrepreneurs.” The project is expected to be completed in early 2024.

It’s such an honor to be part of honoring Prince in association with such an amazing redevelopment effort! It all seems to align so well!

More to come!!!

John Mills

Originally from San Diego, John Mills is a technologist by trade, but an equity advocate and independent scholar by passion. The descendant of both southern and northern enslaved, John focuses on unearthing little known people and stories of this country’s history in slavery and the transatlantic slave trade. John presents research through the lens and perspective of a descendant, with intent to inspire understanding and empathy, a means to inspire good, God fearing people, now armed with information, to look into whether they may be unwittingly aligning to biases resulting from the reverberating effects of a past time. John is a member of the Connecticut Freedom Trail and a member of the Webb Deane Stevens Museum Council. John is also working with an international team funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) in an effort to deliver transformational impact on digital methods in cultural institutions...a means to decolonize museums. Finally, John is working with the state of Connecticut, business leaders and scholars in Middletown, CT to honor and memorialize a former enslaved individual by the name of Prince Mortimer.

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