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.

Monday, August 5, 2024

‘Simpsonic degree at Buffalo’

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     There’s nothing wrong with making a little time for frivolity, and the Erie County Masons are going to lampoon the Simpsonic parody of...
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Sunday, August 4, 2024

‘NOLA: Freemasonry and the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience’

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     Hurd Hatfield in The Picture of Dorian Gray , MGM, 1945. Second in a series recapping my recent trip to New Orleans. I fell asleep the ...
Thursday, August 1, 2024

‘Competition for plaid mad Masonic designers’

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     The initiatives of the Grand Lodge of New York under its new Grand Master are coming fast. The latest is a competition to design a tart...
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Monday, July 29, 2024

‘NOLA: Freemasonry at the Civil War museum’

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     First in a series recapping my recent trip to New Orleans. Speaking of the Civil War (see post below)… While it is among the smaller mu...
Saturday, July 27, 2024

‘Mystic Tie unites lodge, Army fort, and prison’

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     Masons from many states attended our meeting July 13 in Delaware. It’s been two weeks already, so time for a recap of Civil War Lodge o...
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Tuesday, July 23, 2024

‘Szramoski is new E.D. of GWMNM’

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     Matthew T. Szramoski The George Washington Masonic National Memorial has a new executive director. From the announcement: ALEXANDRIA, V...
Saturday, July 20, 2024

‘Archaeologists find evidence of ancient crimson’

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     Israel Antiquities Authority The crimson fragments. And now, I have sent a wise man, endowed with understanding, of my father Huram. Th...
Friday, July 19, 2024

‘The meanings of Ahiman and Rezon’

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     See? Facebook is good for something. Shawn Eyer, one of the “go to guys” in the study of eighteenth century Freemasonry, posted on soci...
Wednesday, July 17, 2024

‘Agüeybaná: New York’s new lodge’

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     GLNY Grand Master Steven A. Rubin and Assistant Grand Secretary Richard W. Bateman display the freshly printed dispensation for Agüeyba...
Saturday, July 6, 2024

‘Brother Lafayette is coming!’

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     UPDATE: The book will ship August 19. Okay, it’s getting close, so now is the right time to order a copy of Chris Ruli’s new book Broth...
Thursday, July 4, 2024

‘A voluntary league for freedom and virtue’

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     (Not the source of the speech quoted below.) It is Independence Day in the United States. In observance, let me share an excerpt from a...
Tuesday, July 2, 2024

‘Research lodge to visit Delaware’

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     The details of Civil War Lodge of Research 1865’s meeting this month in Delaware have been announced. The brethren and their ladies wi...
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