‘Going to Nutley Lodge next month’

    

It’s official: The Magpie Mason will return to Nutley Lodge 25 in New Jersey for a speaking engagement—first time in ten years, as a matter of fact. I guess that’s how long it takes for everyone to forget the reasons not to invite me over and speak.

On Monday, May 4, I will be dining out yet again on my talk: “It’s Just Common Sense: Thomas Reid and the Fellow Craft Degree.” This is an explanation of how a very influential Scottish Enlightenment treatise came to provide part of the Middle Chamber Lecture, with context on what the Second Degree looked like before this lecture was devised, and other admissible evidence.

Lodge tyles at 7:30. 175 Chestnut Street in Nutley, really only a short ride outside of Manhattan.

My own lodge’s meetings coincide with Nutley’s, but not on this date due to the Grand Lodge of New York’s Annual Communication that day.