November is a significant month in our calendar year. It moves from fall colors to the inevitable wintry look. Leaves are bright with splashes of orange and red and soon will fall. The sun has gone from flaming gold to dusty yellow, rain becomes a cool blue, and flowers tone their lovely vibrancy to darker hues. November ushers in Thanksgiving, a day we set aside to celebrate with family and friends the rich history of our country and to give thanks. The true meaning of Thanksgiving is gratitude, thanks for what we now have, the bounty we had yesteryear, and joys yet to come. Thanksgiving is a special day, not only to be thankful for what we receive but to pay homage to all those who have made our nation great, from the Pilgrims who fled religious persecution to worship freely to all those who have helped to make this country so enriched today. Our members are exceedingly fortunate. We share in a community dedicated to upholding the sanctity of each individual and the commonality of ethical pursuit as part of human existence.
Highlights Fall Members Meeting IFC Food Pantry Stone Soup Celebration Bellwether Book Club RSVVP Events Around Town
November 6 Fall Members Meeting Conducted by Committee Chairpersons This meeting kicks off the pledge year. Committee Chairpersons will report this year's accomplishments. EHST and its individual members contribute to the worth and dignity of each individual and to bringing out the best in all. We strive to develop ethical ideas and ideals, to share life's joys, to support each other through life's crises, and to work together to improve our world and that of our children. Your continued financial support is essential to maintain the strength of our society and to pursue these goals.
November 6 IFC Food Pantry ! Please Contribute Generously ! IFC has received food from The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) for many years now. This is a federal program and food is distributed to us through the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina. We had expected some decrease as stimulus funding was available the last few years and is now drying up. However, we have just been notified that our allotment for October is dramatically less than previous months. We are scheduled to receive 2,826 pounds this month as compared to an average of over 10,000 pounds a month during the last 5 months. Needless to say this will be a big blow to the amount of food we are able to provide to those we serve. On average, we continue to see between 500 and 600 households every month for food and currently give out between 1,400 and 1,500 bags of food each month. We need the help of the congregations now more than ever! Please help us get the word out. We welcome both food and monetary donations to purchase food.
November 18, 2011 Bellwether Book Club November’s selection is Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood. The meeting will be Friday, November 18, 2pm, in the University Mall (near Rose’s). "The narrator of Atwood's riveting novel calls himself Snowman. When the story opens, he is sleeping in a tree, wearing an old bed sheet, mourning the loss of his beloved Oryx and his best friend Crake, and slowly starving to death. He searches for supplies in a wasteland where insects proliferate and pigoons and wolvogs ravage the pleeblands, where ordinary people once lived, and the Compounds that sheltered the extraordinary. As he tries to piece together what has taken place, the narrative shifts to decades earlier. How did everything fall apart so quickly? Why is he left with nothing but his haunting memories? Alone except for the green-eyed Children of Crake, who think of him as a kind of monster, he explores the answers to these questions in the double journey he takes — into his own past, and back to Crake's high-tech bubble-dome, where the Paradice Project unfolded and the world came to grief." — The Publisher.
November 20, 2011 Stone Soup Celebration Randy Best, EHST Leader Randy will guide us through the making of a "stone" soup. Bring pre-cooked vegetables to put in the pot. Strictly vegetarian. Stone Soup Story.

	There are many versions of the stone soup fable. The following story was the basis of a 1947 children's book, Stone Soup, by Marcia Brown, which featured soldiers tricking miserly villages into cooking them a feast. The book won a Caldecott Medal in 1947. The earliest version of this story is found in a publication by D.L. Ashliman, Stone Soup: folktales of Aarne-Thompson-Uther type 1548. “Some travelers come to a village, carrying nothing more than an empty cooking pot. Upon their arrival, the villagers are unwilling to share any of their food with the hungry travelers. So the travelers go to the neck of the stream and fill the pot with water, drop a large stone in it, and place it over a fire. One of the villagers becomes curious and asks what they are doing. The travelers answer that they are making "stone soup," which tastes wonderful, although it still needs a little bit of garnish to improve the flavor. The villager does not mind parting with carrots to help them out, so it gets added to the soup. Another villager walks by, inquiring about the pot, and the travelers again mention their stone soup, which has not reached its full potential yet. The villager hands them a little bit of seasoning to help them out. More and more villagers walk by, each adding another ingredient. Finally, a delicious and nourishing pot of soup is enjoyed by all.” Wikipedia
	Discussion Groups November 13th and 27th. Topics to be announced. IFC Cook and Serve We will not cook and serve at IFC in November but will resume in December. If you need additional information please contact Amy Piersma.
	Dine out and Fight Hunger! Tuesday, November 8, 2011 Join fellow humanists in supporting IFC by dining out at selected restaurants on Tuesday, November 8. These restaurants give 10% of their proceeds for the night to various charities and this month IFC is the recipient. See the list of restaurants. We’ll suggest a couple places to meet or choose your own. Watch your email for more details. RSVVP is the benefit held by area restaurants once a month to give 10% of their proceeds on a given day to a selected charity. On RSVVP Day, more than 100 restaurants in Chapel Hill and Carrboro give generously to support the IFC programs, which fight hunger. EHST members are encouraged to join members and friends in dinner out at one of the many participating restaurants.

IFC Events	Post-Turkey Day Jam Benefit Concert Friday, November 25, 2011 Musician Jon Shain has once again put together a great line-up of local musicians to play a concert whose proceeds benefit the IFC. As its name suggests, the Post-Turkey Day Jam will take place the evening after Thanksgiving, Friday, November 25th starting at 8 p.m. Thanks to the generosity of owner Frank Heath, the newly renovated Cat’s Cradle, located at 300 East Main Street in Carrboro, will host the show. New Year’s Eve Concert Saturday, December 31, 2011 Another concert benefiting IFC will be held on December 31, 2011 in the sanctuary of United Church of Chapel Hill, located at 1321 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. in Chapel Hill. The Road Home Band will play a joyous mix of folk, bluegrass, and old time music beginning at 7 p.m. Attendees are asked to make a cash donation.
UNC Fall Programs	UNC Humanities in Action is presenting a series of programs paying homage to the tradition of civic humanism. These will be at Flyleaf Books. Check the link for topics and dates.
Parr Center for Ethics	Lunch & Learn Ethical Implications of the Growth of Digital Media Hyde Hall, University Room Nov 09, 12:00 -1:15 PM The erosion of traditional business models and delivery systems for the news media industry has forced news outlets to find new and creative sources of revenue and increased journalists’ reliance on digital media. Knight Chair in Journalism and Digital Media Economics Penny Muse Abernathy and Associate Professor Rhonda Gibson discuss the ethical concerns that stem from changes in the way news is produced and disseminated.