Showing posts with label Anniversary Lodge of Research. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Anniversary Lodge of Research. Show all posts

Thursday, January 9, 2025

‘The other ALR’

    
There’s another “ALR” in the research lodge world. The Grand Lodge of New Hampshire set to labor Anniversary Lodge of Research 175 in 1964. This lodge offers several eye-catching events each year, and I really want to visit sometime.

For starters, it has received dispensation to open a table lodge next month. The brethren will gather on Friday the 28th at six o’clock in the Masonic Temple in Concord. Book your seat here, but hurry because only thirty can be accommodated.

What I really want to check out is the annual Tri-State Masonic Day of Light, set for Saturday, August 9. This event unites the research lodges of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont for a meeting of sharing their best papers. From what I understand, the location rotates among those three states, and this year it too will be in Concord. (There’s a possibility of the Masonic Restoration Foundation hosting its symposium in, I think, Ontario that weekend, but that date is yet to be announced. I’d like to be there too, so I’m hoping these won’t coincide.)

But the ALR event I most want to attend is its annual meeting. This happens every July 8 at the William Pitt Tavern in Portsmouth—the very place and the anniversary in 1789 of the founding of the Grand Lodge. This sixty-first birthday will land on a Tuesday, so I doubt 2025 is my year to be there, but some day.