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.

Wednesday, November 12, 2025

‘U.K. grand lodges in the news this week’

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     Cheers to the media relations teams at both the grand lodges of England and Scotland, and to The Times , for their respective collabora...
Sunday, November 9, 2025

‘Civil War Lodge’s plans’

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     Civil War Lodge of Research 1865 has its designs upon the trestleboard for next month and the ensuing year. Matthew Szramoski First, th...
Thursday, November 6, 2025

‘New leadership in New Jersey’

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     Gill Raoul Calderon Grand Master Omar Morris and Junior Grand Warden Glenn Visscher. Congratulations are in order upon the huge news pu...
Wednesday, November 5, 2025

‘Time to join/renew to receive AQC 138’

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     It is time to renew with (or join) QCCC for 2026. Quatuor Coronati Correspondence Circle is the corporate side of  Quatuor Coronati Lod...

‘2026 Prestonian Lecture’

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     Magpie file photo Other big news from earlier this year, during my dereliction from blogging: the announcement of next year’s Prestonia...
Sunday, November 2, 2025

‘Freemason helps thwart knife attack’

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     The Telegraph Andrew Johnson One of the two London North Eastern Railway employees credited with helping stop the knife attacks aboard ...
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‘The Revolution WILL be televised’

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     Documentarian Ken Burns will have his latest, The American Revolution , debuted on PBS in two weeks. It’s a long shot, but I am hoping ...
Saturday, November 1, 2025

‘Webinar on New York genealogical research’

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     Sorry for the short notice but, if you can be available Thursday afternoon, I think you’ll find this webinar on research techniques pro...

‘Good Samaritan’s Thanksgiving’

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     Good Samaritan Lodge 336 in Gettysburg will host another of its famous Civil War Dinners in three weeks. If it wasn’t hundreds of mile...
Thursday, October 30, 2025

‘Grand Masters fete Lafayette at The ALR’

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     Almost everybody in attendance last night at The American Lodge of Research. Research lodges typically don’t get a lot of glitz (it’s s...
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Wednesday, October 29, 2025

‘Don’t meet on the level of commonplace’

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     The Independent The soul hath its senses, like the body, that may be cultivated, enlarged, refined, as itself grows in stature and prop...
Sunday, October 26, 2025

‘Ari Roussimoff’s Masonic mirror’

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     ‘Masonic Legacy’ by Ari Roussimoff. Ari Roussimoff, my favorite contemporary painter of Masonic speculations, recently revealed his lat...
Saturday, October 25, 2025

‘Shelby visits the research lodge’

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     RW Shelby Chandler, Past DDGM of Virginia’s Research District, visited New Jersey Lodge of Masonic Research and Education 1786 on Septe...
Wednesday, October 22, 2025

‘MLMA day in Trenton & Philly’

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     Most of the gang at the MLMA annual meeting last month at the Trenton Masonic Temple in New Jersey, home state of outgoing President Gl...
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