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There’s a lot to be said for still employing Masonic carpets, tracing boards, and other narrative art used in lodge during degrees generations ago. Not everything has to be electronic if you have the option. In our Masonic travels, we’ve seen framed antique artworks on the walls of dining rooms and other recreational spaces that ought to be hanging in the lodge room for candidate instruction.
One of America’s best contributors to this category of our material culture was John Sherer, an Ohio Mason, and an engraver by profession, who authored The Masonic Ladder and who created tracing boards for our degrees in the mid nineteenth century.
Use your favorite search engine to see his work. Maybe you’ve looked at his images here and there without knowing their story. And, if you are in or near the Grand Lodge of Ohio’s 20th Masonic District, get to Ebenezer Lodge 33 on October 28 to learn about Sherer and his art from Chad Kopenski, who has been researching the subject for years. The graphic at top has the details.
It would be great to get RW Kopenski to research lodges all over the place.
