The Humanist Association of Connecticut

This is our monthly Humanist Explorations meeting. We meet at 700 Hartford Turnpike in Hamden for a presentation followed by a discussion. The program is usually announced near the end of the month.

This is our annual meeting, held on the third Monday of December at 700 Hartford Turnpike in Hamden.
We usually hold a potluck dinner at 6:30 PM followed by a brief annual business meeting at 7:00 PM, and then our winter solstice party.
More details coming soon.

Our book for December is A Libertarian Walks into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears) by journalist Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling.

From Amazon:
Once upon a time, a group of libertarians got together and hatched the Free Town Project, a plan to take over an American town and completely eliminate its government. In 2004, they set their sights on Grafton, NH, a barely populated settlement with one paved road. When they descended on Grafton, public funding for pretty much everything shrank: the fire department, the library, the schoolhouse…The anything-goes atmosphere soon caught the attention of Grafton's neighbors: the bears…The bears smelled food and opportunity.

A Libertarian Walks into a Bear is the sometimes funny, sometimes terrifying tale of what happens when a government disappears into the woods. Complete with gunplay, adventure, and backstabbing politicians, this is the ultimate story of a quintessential American experiment – to live free or die, perhaps from a bear.

"[A] witty and precisely observed debut...Hongoltz-Hetling skillfully probes shortcomings and ironies in the libertarian philosophy...The result is an entertaining and incisive portrait of political ideology run amok." – Publishers Weekly