Foundation Co-President Dan Barker dedicating FFRF’s new Winter Solstice Display at the Washington Capitol in Olympia on Dec. 1, to the flashing of many media cameras. (The green & red foamboard display was temporarily rigged, due to a shipping snafu which held up the engraved sign.)
Dan’s brother, Darrell, who lives near Olympia and did much of the legwork, is pictured on Dec. 2, when he brought in the real display, a 50-pound, engraved metal sign.
Darrell, recorded by many photographers, bringing back the foamboard sign on Dec. 5, after someone stole the golden insert from the stand bearing the main message. He affixed a prominent “Thou Shalt Not Steal” to the front. Not pictured: the restored sign, after the stolen insert was recovered later that day, slightly damaged but readable.
Lyz Liddell, a Secular Student Alliance staffer from Illinois, gamely placing a foamboard FFRF sign at the Illinois Capitol in Springfield on Dec. 8. The sign went right next to the manger scene, whose display for the first time in the capitol this year the Foundation is protesting. However, Illinois officials moved FFRF’s sign away from the manger on Dec. 9, after the man who erected the nativity scene and asked for a “public forum” complained!
