The Humanist Association of Connecticut

Join us for a fascinating and timely discussion about making our built environment more bird-friendly with Craig Repasz, the co-founder of Lights Out CT (https://www.lightsoutct.org), an advocacy group and project of the Menunkatuck Audubon Society that works with towns across the state to reduce light pollution, create more bird-friendly buildings, and take steps to reduce fatal bird strikes.

Why is light pollution so damaging to migratory birds and for the environment in general? What needs to be done to address this society-wide problem? What is being done in CT specifically? Craig will offer answers to these and other important questions.

This is our monthly meeting, held on the third Monday of the month at 700 Hartford Turnpike in Hamden.

We usually meet for coffee and conversation at 6:30 PM followed by the main event, usually a talk or presentation, at 7:00 PM.

Our book for February (Black History Month) is James by award-winning writer Percival Everett.

From Amazon:
When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond.

While many narrative set pieces of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn remain in place (floods and storms, stumbling across both unexpected death and unexpected treasure in the myriad stopping points along the river’s banks, encountering the scam artists posing as the Duke and Dauphin…) Jim’s agency, intelligence and compassion are shown in a radically new light.

"[A] sly response to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn…What’s most striking, ultimately, is the way James both honors and interrogates Huck Finn, along with the nation that reveres it.” – The Washington Post

Supplementary Reading: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

All members of the Humanist Association of Connecticut are welcome to attend. If you have something to bring to the board or wish to attend, please contact our president. The link to attend will be sent out prior to the meeting.