New Find – Masonic and Eastern Star Home Documents and Photograph
An exciting find to report. A Brother searching through a folder in his lodge came across three documents written by then Grand Secretary and Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Oregon in the year 1921. Along with a wonderful document with specific costs of the Masonic and Eastern Star Home MESH and a wonderful never before seen picture of MESH as a shell before the bricks were placed from what appears to be from the architect of the MESH. Such a valuable find for our jurisdictions history.
A Century of Masonic Purpose 1951
The Grand Lodge of Oregon at the 1951 Annual Communication had the newly assigned Centennial Committee give a report on the progress of the upcoming September 1951 Centennial.
As a side note many Masonic Lodges in the Oregon Jurisdiction each were preparing for their own 100th Centennial Observance. In many of the lodge historical files held within the archives of the museum of the Grand Lodge of Oregon can be found the individual lodge centennial programs.
In 1951 an address was given at the Oregon City Senior Hight School. The program was called, “A Century of Masonic Purpose”.
A Century of Masonic Purpose
An Address Upon the 100th Anniversary of the
Founding of the Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and
Accepted Masons of Oregon
By
W. R. May
Editor Co-Publisher
Enterprise-Courier
Oregon City, Oregon
Location was
Oregon City Senior Hight School
September 15, 1951
You can access the above J. C. Wilkinson File at Digital Archive Digest No. D9
Glass Slides – Magic Lantern
Yesterday at my local Research Lodge, Research Lodge of Oregon No. 198 a discussion at the Refreshment Table began about Glass Slides that were used for degree work using the old Magic Lantern Projectors.
The Grand Lodge of Oregon Digital Archives has copied these glass slides. Give these beautiful pieces of art a look.
