N.Y. Freethought Trail traces nonbelievers who chartered a historic course
Children play on a statue of abolitionists and freethinkers Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass in Rochester, N.Y. RNS photo by Kimberly Winston
SENECA FALLS, N.Y. (RNS) Settlers transformed West-Central New York into a hotbed of radical social and religious ideas, including Mormonism and Spiritualism. A new Freethought Trail highlights the prominent atheists and agnostics who also called the region home.