Celebrating 100 Years of Masonic Relief in Covina
On June 26, 2016, thousands of Masonic family members and friends came to the Masonic Home at Covina to take part in the campus’ highly anticipated centennial celebration.
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Kipling and the Craft
The need for this further essay was first made apparent to me when—in my capacity as Secretary of the Lodge and Editor of the Transactions—I began to receive inquiries from Brethren as far away as Vancouver and Singapore, asking for materials and information which might help them to complete their own papers on Kipling, and I found, to my surprise, that while our library contains a great deal of relevant material, there has never been a paper on Kipling in our Transactions.
Worcestershire Masonic Library & Museum staging a unique Exhibition at The Guildhall in Worcester
The Worcestershire Masonic Library and Museum will be staging a unique Exhibition at The Guildhall in Worcester between the 23rd of July and the 5th August 2017, as part of the celebrations of 300 years of Freemasonry.
This Exhibition, which will be the largest ever staged by the Library and Museum, will also, celebrate the 130th year since the original Exhibition at the Guildhall in 1887, held by George Taylor, the originator of the Library and Museum, and after who the George Taylor Lodge is named.
First International Meeting of European Masonic Lodges in Toulon in May 2017
Two plenary presentations and ninteen round table sessions will allow a well rounded development of the theme. Each will be chaired by a different lodge of research. The topics of each conference and round table will be published subsequently. A participation fee will be asked for the plenaries and panels.
You Won’t Have To Make An Exhibition Of Yourself
The trustees of the Kent Masonic Museum & Library Trust would be pleased to hear from anyone that would like to help in our internationally recognised museum and library in Canterbury. You don’t need to be a Freemason and you can help in a variety of ways: front-of-house or behind the scenes where there is a wide range of things to be done from maintenance to IT to archiving.
1813 Revival by Sussex of Restoration Chapter No 1 – 1769
Records of Royal Arch activity in England, in today’s Supreme Grand Chapter, start with the entry in the first minute book of the unnamed ‘Excellent Grand and Royal Chapter’. They are dated 22 March 1765 and show the first meeting to have been held at the mysterious and still unidentified Mr Inge’s premises, until the move to The Turk’s Head in Gerrard Street, Soho, London on 12 June of the same year. It took a further four years before Supreme Grand Chapter issued warrants establishing the first new Chapters under the jurisdiction of the Order.
New Minnesota Masonic Heritage Center Now Open
Minnesota Masonic Charities has opened its brand spankin’ new $22 million heritage center in Bloomington on the grounds of the Minnesota Masonic Home. The facility has a 443-seat auditorium, a lodge room, museum, library, conference space and a dining facility with a full catering kitchen.
WWI memorial and commemorative plaque to Bedfordshire Regiment
Ian Mould was born in Bedfordshire and has lived there all his life and his father, Gordon Mould, is a Freemason and member of the Old Dunstablians’…
Brighton bus dedicated to Andy Durr – a Sussex mason known as ‘Mr Seafront’
‘Mr Seafront’ honoured A Brighton bus has been dedicated to Sussex mason Andy Durr, a former mayor and councillor. On his death at the end of…
Presentation to Q.C. Lodge No 2076 Great Queen Street, London.
QC logo Brethren, I can only apologize for the lack of postings over the few weeks, but my focus has been on the final preparations for my presentation on…