Thursday, May 12, 2011

Today in Masonic History - May 12st

Today in Masonic History (May 12th)


On this date in 1932, the George Washington Masonic National Memorial, in Alexandria, Virginia, was dedicated in a very large ceremony, attended by thousands, including the President of the United States

http://www.gwmemorial.org




On this date in 1931, Senator Barry Goldwater (candidate for U.S. President in 1964) received his 1st degree in Arizona Lodge #2, Phoenix AZ.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Goldwater




On this date in 1999, the Grand Lodge of D.C., under the leadership of Grand Master Dan L Frederick, voted to recognize the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of D.C.

http://www.mwphgldc.com/


Today In MAsonic

Today in Masonic History (May 12th). in 1932, the George Washington Masonic National Memorial was dedicated in a very large ceremony, attended by thousands. Also, in 1999, the Grand Lodge of D.C., voted to recognize the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of D.C.

Wednesday, May 11, 2011


On this day in Masonic History (May 11th) in 1865, the Grand Lodge of West Virginia was formed.

http://www.wvmasons.org/ - Official GL Website

Saturday, May 7, 2011

The Worldwide Exemplification of Freemasonry - "Freemasons & the Greek War of Independence"

This weeks lecture from The Worldwide Exemplification of Freemasonry is titled

"Freemasons & the Greek War of Independence" given by Andreas C. Rizopoulos, PM

The show starts at 8pm on http://weofm.org/

Below is an overview from the weofm website about tonights speaker.

"Andreas C. Rizopoulos, is a retired journalist and communications consultant.

He is Full Member of Quatuor Coronati No. 2076, the Premier Lodge of Research under the United Grand Lodge of England and Fellow of the Scottish Rite Research Society. He belongs to Panathenean No. 146 Lodge in Greece (founder and Past Master) and was Founder-Steward of Internet Lodge No. 9659 in England. He also belongs to the Scottish Rite in Greece and to the Holy Royal Arch, Mark (Past Provincial Grand Standard Bearer), and Royal Ark Mariner (Provincial Royal Ark Mariner Grand Rank) in England. For the past twenty years he has been Grand Representative of two USA Grand Lodges at the Grand Lodge of Greece.

He has authored three books on Freemasonry [Philhellenes and Greek Freemasons in 1821, Greek Masonic Handbook and Freemasonry in the Ionians] and many historical articles published in Ars Quatuor Coronatorum, Heredom, the Greek Masonic magazine Pythagoras, the Turkish Masonic magazine Mimar Sinan, and even general literary and historical magazines and has delivered more than a hundred papers in Lodges and general Masonic meetings. He has also published three books and several articles and presented many papers in international medical congresses on the history of Medicine as well as articles on literary subjects, communication, and aviation. Finally he has published three novels, poetry, and a book on literary history and has translated many books into Greek"

Monday, May 2, 2011







I'm interviewing Martin Faulks and Andrew Selwyn-Crome from Lewis Masonic Publishers about their new video series "On The Level" (http://www.youtube.com/user/LewisMasonic).

Any questions you would like to ask them?

If you haven't seen the video's yet, you need to check them out!

Sunday, May 1, 2011

Today in Masonic History - May 1st

On this date in 1865, William McKinley (U.S. President 1898-1901) received his 1st degree in Hiram Lodge #21, Winchester, Virginia.

More about McKinley
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McKinley

http://www.pagrandlodge.org/mlam/presidents/mckinley.html