2011-4 Fall
How Did We Get Into This?
15/10/11 20:00
Mark T. “Bull” Jones, Sentinel, Dave Langham Chapter, Alabama
Our family’s Masonic journey began in 2009 when after a decade of considering the Lodge and wondering why none of the Masons in my family had asked me to join. I seriously thought that there had to be something wrong with me! Eventually, though, the desire to be a part of something larger than my self – something like I felt in my days in the U.S. Navy back in the 1980’s – became overwhelming and in July of that year I submitted my petition to the Lodge nearest our Tillman’s Corner, AL home. George U. Potter Lodge, #912, F. & A.M. With nothing less than amazement I discovered that I was worthy of the fraternity!
Divorce, the Duchess, and Dupont Circle
15/10/11 20:00
Laura Humphreys spent two months writing a report on the International Headquarters in Washington DC for the Historic American Buildings Survey as part of a Masters Degree at the Ironbridge Institute in the United Kingdom.
Walking down New Hampshire Avenue towards the Eastern Star International Headquarters for the first time is quite an experience. It is a strange building, occupying a whole triangular city block with blind windows, strange angles and Beaux-Arts flourishes on every spare inch of stone. It lights up like a majestic riverboat sailing towards Dupont circle in the night, leaving much more ordinary buildings (with much more ordinary histories) in its wake. Read More...