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 Worshipful Master of The American Lodge of Research in New York; is a Past Master 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.

Friday, September 30, 2022

‘Lodge by lantern light’

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    Warren Lodge 32’s Masonic Hall was built in 1865 in the Italianate style. It was relocated to its present site in 2011. I’ll conclude Se...
Thursday, September 29, 2022

‘1730 Fellow-Craft’s Degree’

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      Thank you for reading The Magpie Mason . Today, we begin our fifteenth year together. Publicity Lodge 1000 returned from its Summer R...
Wednesday, September 28, 2022

‘The great mission of our fraternity’

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     The hundredth anniversary of the constitution of my lodge is a month away, so I am reading about that occasion and about the concurrent...
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Wednesday, September 21, 2022

‘Bolívar’s Scottish Rite regalia’

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    Magpie file photo The Thirty-Second Degree collar and apron owned by Simón Bolívar. I shot this photo at Fraunces Tavern Museum twenty y...
Tuesday, September 20, 2022

‘EA Degree at DeWint House!’

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     Something different is planned for Grand Master’s Day next month at DeWint House: an Entered Apprentice Degree! I’m guessing this will ...
Thursday, September 8, 2022

‘To the King and the Craft’

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    Macoy That’s a loyal toast that hasn’t been heard in British Freemasonry in seventy years, since the death of Bro. Albert Frederick Arth...

‘Help wanted: researching the researchers’

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     I never ask Magpie readers for anything—except to join the Masonic Society—but today I’m hoping some of you would complete a very brie...
Wednesday, September 7, 2022

'Remembering John Skene from Aberdeen'

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       Bob Howard photo The Masonic Kitties of New Jersey were well represented at this memorial. The Kilties is a degree team that confers ...
Monday, September 5, 2022

‘Traubenfest 2022’

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     The Ninth Manhattan District’s annual Traubenfest is such a local success in Tappan, and has been a tradition there since 1890, that t...
Saturday, September 3, 2022

‘Fraternitas’

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     BROTHERS IN ARMS —Italian pipemaking houses Luigi Viprati and Ser Jacopo are united in a new venture: Fraternitas. Okay, and handcuffs ...
Thursday, September 1, 2022

‘What to do when your bylaws are historic’

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     St. John’s Lodge No. 1 Foundation September? Really? Well, time flies, but preserving history is a perennial task that requires a lot o...
Monday, August 29, 2022

‘The ALR: Master’s update

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     If you are not yet a member of The American Lodge of Research , you didn’t receive the message from our Worshipful Master last night pr...
Tuesday, August 23, 2022

‘Masonic “church” may be conveyed to town’

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     Suffolk Lodge 60, AYM The lodge in Port Jefferson proposes to transfer its property to the municipal government, local news media repo...
Friday, August 19, 2022

‘New grand master calls for initiating women’

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     E. Sultan photo Grand Master Ilan Segev. The recently installed Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Israel was quoted in that country’s ...
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