Published by the Freedom From Religion Foundation, Inc.
Vol. 40 No. 01 Jan/Feb 2023
Celebrating the Winter Solstice season 2022
FFRF’s annual Winter Solstice exhibit at the Wisconsin Capitol has now been displayed there for 26 years. Setting up the display were FFRF staff members Matt Langer, Greta Martens and Sadie Pattinson.
FFRF’s 2016 Activist of the Year and Humanists and Freethinkers of Fairfield County member Jerry Bloom placed FFRF’s sign at Huntington Green in Shelton, Conn., on Dec. 10.
FFRF’s “Let Reason Prevail” sign and Bill of Rights nativity display were installed at Balboa Park in San Diego in December, thanks to volunteer and member Katie D., who asks to be identified without her full name. The display was vandalized days later.
Outside the California Capitol, members of the Greater Sacramento Chapter of FFRF placed the Bill of Rights nativity display on Dec. 12. Sacramento chapter members who helped install the display are, from left, Barri Babow, Erin Louis, Judy Roberson, John Lucas, Judy Saint (and her dog Jo-Jo).
The Unfettered Freethinkers of South Sound chapter put up this FFRF solstice display on the Capitol grounds in Olympia, Wash. From left to right are Linda Foerster, Lewis Foerster, Darrell Barker and Rod Tinnemore.
FFRF’s Bill of Rights Nativity cutout went up on Dec. 2 for the fifth consecutive year in Cook Memorial Park in Libertyville, Ill. It was placed by FFRFMCC Board Member Bob Hunter.
FFRF’s winter solstice sign is back in the Milwaukee County Courthouse for the 12th year in a row. FFRF thanks volunteer and area member Ted Shellhamer for his “faithful faithless” work to spread the secular cheer every year.
FFRF’s secular winter solstice exhibit was set up at the New Hampshire Statehouse for the fifth year in a row, thanks to Member Jack Shields and other volunteers.
FFRF’s Bill of Rights “nativity” display has been installed in the Iowa Capitol for the sixth year in a row. FFRF thanks Lifetime Member and State Representative Paul Novak for his help in putting up the display.
FFRF proudly announces its first secular display in Homer Township, Ill., a quintessentially Illinois community not too far from Chicago. FFRF thanks volunteers and members Nancy Hockenberry and Ellen Moriarty for making the display possible.
The Chicago Daley Center Plaza Winter Solstice/Bill of Rights banner was put up on Dec. 12 by members of FFRF’s Metro Chicago Chapter, including, from left, Bob Hunter, Shane Stapley and Steve Foulkes.
Shane Stapley shows off the Winter Solstice banner and scarlet “A” sign at the Glenview, Ill., Village Hall.
For the 11th year, FFRF’s Metropolitan Chicago Chapter has erected a display at North School Park in Arlington Heights, thanks to the work of chapter board member Tom Cara and others. The Bill of Rights Nativity display was put up Dec. 1 by FFRFMCC Members Kathi Wise and Fred Dix (pictured).