‘Texas Masonic politics to be Masonic Society discussion’

    

The Masonic Society has announced its keynote speaker for our annual dinner next month during Masonic Week at Crystal City, Virginia.

President Oscar Alleyne says Bro. Billy Hamilton, Master of Texas Lodge of Research, will discuss Masonic politics in Texas. From the publicity:

Billy Hamilton

The Masonic Society is excited to announce that W. Bro. Billy Hamilton will be the 2024 TMS Dinner Speaker at Masonic Week on Friday, February 9 at 7 p.m. His topic involves civil politics spilling over into the lodge room, a Texas standoff between Masons and a guy fending off an armed posse with a canon at his house.

Just to clarify, the title of the talk will be “Allen and Williams: Masonic Politics in the Republic of Texas.”

Bro. Billy Hamilton is the Worshipful Master of Texas Lodge of Research and is a Past Master of Fort Worth Lodge 148. He is a co-host of the Fort Worth Masonic Podcast and is one of the organizers of Texas MasoniCon, an annual Masonic educational conference.

Bro. Hamilton was the General Manager of the Grand Lodge of Texas Library & Museum in Waco from 2020 to 2022. He has been published in The Journal of the Masonic Society, Knight Templar magazine, Fraternal Review, and Texas Lodge of Research’s Transactions.

His book, Ancient Mysteries and Modern Masonry: The Collected Writings of Jewel P. Lightfoot, is available through Westphalia Press or Amazon.com.

Tickets for this event can be purchased at Masonic Week’s Registration link here.