Lake Hypatia Advance
Every year many freethinkers get together at beautiful Lake Hypatia, Alabama for a fun filled Fourth of July Weekend!
Primitive camping is available on the upper and lower campgrounds (local motels a few miles away), swimming in the lake or Cady Creek natural lagoon, fishing, paddle boats, dining at the lakeside Pavilion, great speakers and most of all the experience of making new friends, renewing old friendships and mingling with fellow freethinkers.
Lake Hypatia Events
For Alabama Freethought Association meeting dates, go here.
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Lake Hypatia, Alabama
Independence Weekend Celebration
July 4 - July 6, 2008
Sponsored by the Alabama Freethought Association, a chapter of the Freedom From Religion Foundation.
Notice: No meal orders may be ordered at this time or at the door. Meal registration closed June 20.
Registration opens Friday, July 4 at 11 a.m.
By invitation, Pat Cleveland invites you to camp (primitive or self-contained camping) on her property
Details, speaker information & registration form (last updated May 15)
(Check often for updates)
Among the featured speakers:
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Since September of 2005, the Secular Coalition for America has been explicitly representing nontheists (atheists, humanists, freethinkers, and other nontheistic Americans) in Congress. Lori Lipman Brown, the Secular Coalition's director, will report on how their efforts are being received by Congress members and staff, the media, and theistic church/state separation allies. She will discuss the current church/state issues and what we can do to help protect our secular government. |
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Jason Grosser is a board-certified behavior analyst and has over a decade of experience in behavior analysis working with various populations including adults with mental illness, children with autism or behavior problems in school settings, adolescents with traumatic brain injury and adults with mental retardation. He has published in the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis and worked with leading researchers in the field of applied behavior analysis. |
About Lake Hypatia
Lakeside Pavilion at Lake Hypatia
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Roger, Pat and Melody Cleveland of Alabama dreamed of a freethought "advance, not retreat," right in the buckle of the bible belt. The Alabama Freethought Association, which Pat and Roger Cleveland founded, and which is the Foundation's largest chapter, has worked invaluably as an umbrella organization of atheists, agnostics and other freethinkers to keep church and state separate in Alabama. The Alabama Freethought Association took the original lawsuit challenging Judge Roy Moore's courtroom Ten Commandments in Gadsden, Ala.
In the 1990s, the Cleveland family deeded land to the national Freedom From Religion Foundation, which raised funds to construct the Lake Hypatia Freethought Hall. An addition, the beautiful Willa E. Whatley Auditorium, was dedicated in 1999. The Clevelands also invited the national Foundation to place its Atheists in Foxholes monument at Lake Hypatia, a peaceful spot to recognize the country's many atheist and agnostic veterans.
Every year, with authentic Southern Hospitality, the Cleveland family generously opens its beautiful, improved grounds and lake to hundreds of freethinkers from all over the country for the annual "Glorious Fourth" Independence Day celebration. Speeches are conducted in the air-conditioned Lake Hypatia Freethought Hall, and outdoor recreation takes place on the Cleveland's rural campgrounds.
Alabama Freethought Association
