‘Academy speakers announced’

     

With temperatures here today exceeding 100 degrees Fahrenheit, imagine, if you will, a clear crisp autumn day at the bucolic Masonic Village in Elizabethtown. Trees are turning orange and yellow. Seth and Austin toss a football on the Green before heading inside for a spot of mulled apple cider.

Anyway, on Saturday, October 24, Roger will be one of the speakers there when the Pennsylvania Academy of Masonic Knowledge hosts its Fall Symposium!

Yes, another Knights of the North alum will take to the lectern, when MW Roger VanGorden, Past Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Indiana, will present “If Thomas Smith Webb Had a Chatbot: Speculative Masonry Meets Artificial Intelligence.”

Sharing the double bill will be RW Joshua W. Schutts, Grand Orator in the Grand Lodge of Florida, who will discuss “Curating a Culture of Brotherhood and Engagement.”

Proving it’s a small world, both speakers are AMD grand staff. CHANGE OF PLANS:

Sharing the double bill will be MW R. Stephen Doan, Past Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of California, who will discuss “Exploring William Preston’s Illustrations of Masonry.”

More information, as always, can be found on the webpage here.

Don’t forget, if you cannot attend, the Academy does stream on YouTube.