‘Another year of Magpie Masonry’

    

Macoy Masonic Supply

Thank you for reading The Magpie Mason.

Seventeen years ago, late on a Monday night, and at this very minute evidently, I posted the very first edition of this blog. My intention for today, until recently, had been to take this opportunity to say goodbye and announce the blog will remain up through the end of the year before being deleted but, ah, things have changed.

It was revealed to me more than a week ago, during the research lodges conference in Kentucky, that The Magpie Mason will continue after all! I think I masked my surprise well, but surprised I was and, so, here we are. (No, this had nothing to do with protecting certain podcasts’ show prep.) I guess I’ll give it another year.

But how was your summer? I’ve been having a marvelous time! The Masonic Restoration Foundation Symposium in Ontario, August 15-17; followed by the John Skene Masonic Conference in New Jersey the week after; followed two weeks later by the Masonic Library and Museum Association’s annual meeting in Trenton & Philly; and then New Jersey’s research lodge the next Saturday, with a tour of Princeton Battlefield with Shelby the day after; and, most recently, that conference in Kentucky, properly titled “Exploring the Role of Masonic Research Lodges and Societies in the 21st Century,” hosted in Lexington by William O. Ware Lodge of Research and the Rubicon Masonic Society.

“Did you ever get the feeling that the world was a tuxedo and you were a pair of brown shoes?”

    

George Gobel

It’s hard to take in, but Magpie coverage is forthcoming. I should have shot more photos.

I’ll be busy in the coming weeks too, with the next meeting of Civil War Lodge of Research 1865 down in Richmond; The American Lodge of Research—finally, a home game!—on October 29 for a Lafayette night; and then the Observant lodge in New Haven to hear Chris Murphy speak in November; CWLR1865 again in December for our 30th anniversary; and the 250th anniversary of American-Union in Ohio come February! And I’ll be sure to tell you all about those events too. I’ll take photos.

But this is just an update and a program note. (Poor Bonkos has been going nutzoid with his obsessive-compulsive clicking on this website—thousands of times daily for months! Settle down, Bonkos. Take a cigarette break.)

America’s third favorite blog about Freemasonry is back, baby! <sigh>