The "American Freethought" miniseries examines our nation's freethought, atheist and secular heritage from the American Revolution to the 1930s. Part 1 will cover the thinking of our founding fathers to role of freethinkers in the abolition movement. Parts 2-4 will be shown the Mondays of March 23, April 6 and April 13. Free and open to the public.

The "American Freethought" miniseries examines our nation's freethought, atheist and secular heritage from the American Revolution to the 1930s. Part 1 will cover the thinking of our founding fathers to role of freethinkers in the abolition movement. The series was produced by the Center for Inquiry, based in Amherst, N.Y.

The Flathead Area Secular Humanist Association, founded in 2011, is group of secular humanists, atheists, agnostics, freethinkers, naturalists and skeptics. As well as providing social and educational activities for its members, FASHA actively promotes the secular agenda locally -- such as ensuring the separation of church and state in our public schools and on public lands.

FASHA also performs community service, such as maintaining a stretch of U.S. 93 north of Kalispell under the Adopt-a-Highway program, and annual volunteer conservation outings in Glacier National Park. Public-information activities have included Darwin Day celebrations in February 2012 and 2014, and an "Ask an Atheist" public forum in October 2013. In April, FASHA hosted the talk "The Necessity of Secularism" by Center for Inquiry President and CEO Ron Lindsay.

For more information or to join FASHA, visit FASHA's Web site (http://www.flatheadsecular.com/) or FASHA's Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Flathead-Area-Secular-Humanist-Association-FASHA/272584432770466).

The Center for Inquiry is the parent corporation of the Council for Secular Humanism, one of the country's largest secular humanist organizations, and the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, formerly the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, which was founded in the 1970s.