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, January 31, 2025

‘Lookit this line-up of speakers!’

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     Registration is open now for the Midwest Conference on Masonic Education, this time in Indianapolis May 2-4. UPDATE: The conference sa...
Thursday, January 30, 2025

‘Royal Arch research chapter to meet’

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     Thomas Smith Webb Chapter of Research will meet in March during the Grand Chapter of New York Annual Convocation upstate. From the publ...
Wednesday, January 29, 2025

‘Shekomeko and the Temple of Virtue’

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     Shekomeko Lodge 458 isn’t prohibitively far from the city—if you’re able to drive—being part of the Mid Hudson District, and the brethr...
Tuesday, January 28, 2025

‘Washington Inaugural Bible on Long Island’

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     I guess it’s time to start looking at March already. On Monday the third, Lynbrook-Massapequa Lodge 822 on Long Island will host a spec...
Monday, January 27, 2025

‘Roundtable discussion on research & writing’

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     Last week’s episode of The Masonic Roundtable podcast is of special interest to researchers and writers in the fraternity—We Happy Few...
Sunday, January 26, 2025

‘Exploring the Role of Masonic Research Lodges in the 21st Century’

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     The announcement is out, so let me be the last to share the great news of a conference being planned to discuss the purpose of researc...
Saturday, January 25, 2025

‘Success: Masonic Con New York!’

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     Not everyone, but many who attended Masonic Con New York last Saturday at Masonic Hall in New York City. Our closing presentation took ...
Friday, January 17, 2025

‘The Masonic Con with a mission’

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     The Grand Lodge of New York’s first Masonic Con arrives tomorrow, and you still can buy tickets  and join about 125 of your brethren fr...
Thursday, January 9, 2025

‘The other ALR’

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     There’s another “ALR” in the research lodge world. The Grand Lodge of New Hampshire set to labor Anniversary Lodge of Research 175 in ...
Wednesday, January 8, 2025

‘Who knew ghosts could be so boring?’

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     Kalani Ghost Hunter I am agnostic on the question of ghosts, spirits, etc. being somehow among us. I suppose anything is possible, but ...
Tuesday, January 7, 2025

‘Freemasonry in NYC during the Civil War’

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     Fresno Masonic Hall California is far beyond my orbit, but let me apprise the brethren in and near Fresno of a lecture in two weeks. W....
Saturday, January 4, 2025

‘Masons in the American Revolution’

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     In New Jersey, Bergen250 , Bergen County’s commemoration of the semiquincentennial anniversary of America’s Founding, will present Bro....
Wednesday, January 1, 2025

‘New WM coming to NJ LORE’

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     Happy New Year, everybody! If, for some reason, you choose not to attend Masonic Con New York on the eighteenth, you ought to visit Ne...
Sunday, December 29, 2024

‘Rededication to mark statue’s 75th anniversary’

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     Magpie file photo Bryant Baker’s seventeen-foot bronze of Bro. Washington greets visitors to the Memorial. Somehow it’s hard to think o...
Saturday, December 28, 2024

‘Louisiana Lodge of Research is back’

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     As mentioned here in March, Louisiana Lodge of Research was suffering organizational malaise, but its new website announces the lodge’...
Friday, December 27, 2024

‘Coach Nagy in the Reading Room’

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     Bro. John “ Coach ” Nagy will be the next guest in Craftsmen Online’s Reading Room. The ubiquitous and prolific builder of builders wil...
Sunday, December 22, 2024

‘Grande Oriente d’Italia prevails in court’

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     The Grand Orient of Italy has won its court case against the government of that nation—for now—according to a ruling handed down last T...
Saturday, December 21, 2024

‘Book on research lodges due next week’

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     A recently completed compendium of Masonic research bodies has been published and will be on sale next week. Masonic Research Lodges, B...
Thursday, December 12, 2024

‘Azim is ready for 2025’

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     Monarch Mike Sikos Azim’s Monarch for the ensuing year was elected and installed last Friday, in a friendly sort of way, with his retin...
Friday, December 6, 2024

‘King Athelstan’s iPhone?’

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     Athelstan King, Lord among Earls, Bracelet-bestower and Baron of Barons, He with his brother, Edmund Atheling, Gaining a lifelong Glory...
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