Arkansas Society of Freethinkers
Have a bite, have a brew and plot to take over the Rivermarket Area!

Arkansas Society of Freethinkers
Meetings of the ASF Board of Directors are open to ASF members. This is a great way to find out how you can get involved with a team of people who, like yourself, want to build a secular community in Arkansas and advocate for a scientific worldview.

This board meeting will occur on Discord. The invitation link is made available after you RSVP. You may want to install Discord and set up an account ahead of the meeting to avoid any technical delays.

Arkansas Society of Freethinkers
We're meeting the 4th Sunday of each month at 2 PM.

The event will be held in the reading room at Pocket Dimension Bookshoppe in Argenta.

Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three by Mara Leveritt, an award-winning Arkansas investigative journalist inducted into the Arkansas Writers' Hall of Fame. This book is available in paperback and ebook, with several options for purchasing used online.

From the publisher's description: "In 2011, one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in American legal history was set right when Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley were released after eighteen years in prison. Award-winning journalist Mara Leveritt’s The Devil’s Knot remains the most comprehensive, insightful reporting ever done on the investigation, trials, and convictions of three teenage boys who became known as the West Memphis Three.
For weeks in 1993, after the murders of three eight-year-old boys, police in West Memphis, Arkansas seemed stymied. Then suddenly, detectives charged three teenagers—alleged members of a satanic cult—with the killings. Despite the witch-hunt atmosphere of the trials, and a case which included stunning investigative blunders, a confession riddled with errors, and an absence of physical evidence linking any of the accused to the crime, the teenagers were convicted. Jurors sentenced Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley to life in prison and Damien Echols, the accused ringleader, to death. The guilty verdicts were popular in their home state—even upheld on appeal—and all three remained in prison until their unprecedented release in August 2011.

With close-up views of its key participants, this award-winning account unravels the many tangled knots of this endlessly shocking case, one which will shape the American legal landscape for years to come."

Please RSVP so we will have a general idea of attendance size.

RSVP for access to the link to vote for September's book. Poll closes Friday 7/31/26.

Arkansas Society of Freethinkers
Join Conway's local ASF group for dinner at La Huerta.

Conway's ASF group meets every other month at La Huerta for dinner, and the months in between we do a potluck, usually at Conway Trophy downtown.

Thanks to each of you for making the event enjoyable!

Arkansas Society of Freethinkers
Join us for an open-ended call about ethics, law, secular life, culture, work, religion, or whatever!

We have a call on the 2nd Monday of each month and the 4th Monday of each month.

This is a great opportunity for freethinkers from across Arkansas and beyond to network.

WE'VE MOVED TO DISCORD!

To join the meeting, you must create a Discord user and join the ASF group. Review the #community-rules and be nice!

See #faq if you have problems.

Arkansas Society of Freethinkers
This is a bonus event. Our regular monthly meeting will be on Sunday August 23rd (RSVP separately for that event [here](https://www.meetup.com/arfreethinkers/events/315038918/)). The following Wednesday, August 26th, ASF will host a zoom meeting with Mara Leveritt, author of the August book pick Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three. A zoom link will be posted in this meetup event at a later date. RSVP for access to the zoom meeting.

Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three by Mara Leveritt, an award-winning Arkansas investigative journalist inducted into the Arkansas Writers' Hall of Fame. This book is available in paperback and ebook, with several options for purchasing used online.
From the publisher's description: "In 2011, one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in American legal history was set right when Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley were released after eighteen years in prison. Award-winning journalist Mara Leveritt’s The Devil’s Knot remains the most comprehensive, insightful reporting ever done on the investigation, trials, and convictions of three teenage boys who became known as the West Memphis Three.
For weeks in 1993, after the murders of three eight-year-old boys, police in West Memphis, Arkansas seemed stymied. Then suddenly, detectives charged three teenagers—alleged members of a satanic cult—with the killings. Despite the witch-hunt atmosphere of the trials, and a case which included stunning investigative blunders, a confession riddled with errors, and an absence of physical evidence linking any of the accused to the crime, the teenagers were convicted. Jurors sentenced Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley to life in prison and Damien Echols, the accused ringleader, to death. The guilty verdicts were popular in their home state—even upheld on appeal—and all three remained in prison until their unprecedented release in August 2011.
With close-up views of its key participants, this award-winning account unravels the many tangled knots of this endlessly shocking case, one which will shape the American legal landscape for years to come."