The Magpie Mason

The Magpie Mason is an obscure journalist in the Craft who writes, with occasional flashes of superficial cleverness, about Freemasonry’s current events and history; literature and art; philosophy and pipe smoking. He is a Past Master of both The American Lodge of Research in New York City and of New Jersey Lodge of Masonic Research and Education 1786; and also is at labor in Virginia’s Civil War Lodge of Research 1865. He is a past president of the lamented Masonic Society as well.

Monday, September 21, 2026

‘Book sale at the Washington Memorial’

On November 12, 1912, Spanish Prime Minister José Canalejas y Méndez was assassinated* by an anarchist (typical) while shopping for books in Madrid. The odds of that happening to you this November 12-15 are practically zero, so get to the George Washington Masonic National Memorial for its massive book sale!

*Franco, who himself is still dead, later blamed the Freemasons for the murder.

The Magpie Mason

Monday, September 21, 2026

‘Book sale at the Washington Memorial’

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