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.

Sunday, April 30, 2023

‘Peninsula’s 20th anniversary’

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     Magpie file photo I close the Magpie month of April with happy anniversary wishes to my old lodge, Peninsula 99 over in New Jersey. It ...

‘Grand Lodge facts and figures’

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     The big day is tomorrow! On Monday at 9 a.m., the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of New York will assemble and op...
Saturday, April 29, 2023

‘A new look for Masonic Hall’

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     Masonic Hall has been behind scaffolding for so long—I really don’t recall how many years (six?)—that some of us may have forgotten wha...
Friday, April 28, 2023

‘For your Brotherly Love’

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     For Your Love , Bro. Francis Dumaurier’s biography of Bro. Giorgio Gomelsky, has been available in digital format for more than a year,...
Wednesday, April 26, 2023

‘Washington inauguration on Sunday’

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     Have any plans for Sunday afternoon? The corrupt and deranged “president” of the United States just mumbled his plan to seek re-electio...
Monday, April 24, 2023

‘Lodge of Military History and Holocaust Studies’

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     Among the dynamics in English Freemasonry is the repurposing of lodges considered at risk of surrendering their warrants. One such lodg...
Sunday, April 23, 2023

‘The Henry Price is right’

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     Pleasant news from within the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, where approval recently was granted for a name change of a Boston lodge. Wh...
Saturday, April 22, 2023

’The minutes of history’

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     Tuckahoe Lodge 347 in Richmond, Virginia shared on social media an activity that sounds really interesting and productive. It was just ...
Monday, April 17, 2023

‘Andrew Hammer tomorrow night’

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     Magpie coverage of the Hudson Valley Masonicon is forthcoming, but while I’m working on that let me promote the appearance Tuesday nigh...
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Wednesday, April 5, 2023

‘Géométrie at 3 on 4/5’

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    smokingpipes.com Speaking of geometry (see post below), today will see the release of a new tobacco mixture for the pipe from the prolif...
Monday, April 3, 2023

‘Free class: Mathematics and Logic’

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     Hillsdale College “We do a disservice to young people by not teaching them all the steps in mathematics, because it’s liberating to kno...
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Sunday, April 2, 2023

‘Graham and guns: another day at LORE’

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     After driving fifty-something miles into New Jersey, I’m three minutes from the lodge when I find myself stuck on an off-ramp for a hal...
Friday, March 31, 2023

‘Hudson Valley Masonicon next Saturday’

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    This is just an update on the Hudson Valley Masonicon planned for next Saturday. The schedule of speakers has been announced, and it loo...
Wednesday, March 29, 2023

‘A princess decapitated, a stairway ascended, and a Fellow elevated’

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     Appropriately hanging outside the Colonial Room in Masonic Hall are Franklin, Washington, and Lafayette. That was one exceptional meeti...
Saturday, March 25, 2023

‘New York City Grotto Day’

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     Some Grottoes exhibit wisdom. Some possess strength. Azim emphasizes beauty! ‘The Handsomest Grotto in the Realm.’   Today was the big ...
Friday, March 24, 2023

‘Texas grand master opines on “trans” membership question’

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     The grand master of the Grand Lodge of Texas today published his opinion on the legality of transgender people holding membership in Te...
Monday, March 20, 2023

‘A whole new Masonic ring’

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     Amity I can’t guess who the hand model is, but I think he’s a Grand Lodge of New York officer. No one in the Masonic world is driving t...
Friday, March 17, 2023

‘Coming up at The ALR this month’

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      The American Lodge of Research will meet again on Tuesday the 28th in the Colonial Room of Masonic Hall. (71 W. 23rd St., Manhattan, ...
Friday, March 10, 2023

‘Historians to visit Fredericksburg’

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     Civil War Lodge of Research 1865, one of Virginia’s numerous lodges of Masonic research and education, will meet Saturday, April 1 at o...
Wednesday, March 8, 2023

‘An extra special MM Degree’

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     Publicity Lodge and guests Monday night. We enjoyed a really big night Monday at Publicity Lodge. Conferring the Third Degree on a FC M...
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