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December 18 - Yale Humanists Seek To Unite New Haven Community With Holiday Obelisk Article: Miscellaneous
Every holiday season, New Haven’s Town Green lights up with festive cheer. Passers-by flock to the green space at the center of this Connecticut city to admire a Christmas tree, a nativity scene and a Hanukkah menorah. This year, another temporary structure is making a mark on the green, and its secular creators hope people with and without religious belief can appreciate the message. The “Lighthouse” is a 12-foot, nine-sided obelisk created by local artist Ted Salmon for the Yale Humanist Community, a group composed of secular Yale University students and secular residents of the greater New Haven area. The steel structure, which was officially dedicated on Sunday, attempts to encapsulate the hope, beauty and light that emerges when people of different beliefs and values come together.
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