The society of Masons is a fraternity that evokes images of mysterious symbols, grand legends of King Solomon's Temple, hidden treasure and the founding fathers. It also fits right in with America's ...

BAY CITY, MI-- After 122 years, one of Bay City's oldest fraternities has a new home. On Friday, Jan. 30, officials from the Joppa Lodge No. 315 of the Free and Accepted Order of Masons closed on the ...

WESTLAKE, Ohio -- After a year of pandemic quarantining, when many of us found plenty of time to sort through closets and basements full of belongings, it’s no wonder that the Rocky River chapter of ...

Secrets, codes, hidden treasures and lost religions. We just can’t seem to get enough, including movies like “National Treasure” and “The Da Vinci Code,” which both swirled around secrets of the ...

They are all around you. Doctors, lawyers, mailmen and mayors, they blend in. But behind closed doors and inside windowless meeting rooms, they don simple aprons and pledge to leave opinions of ...

On April Fool’s Day, the secretive fraternal organization known as the Masons signed a contract with Baltimore Orioles owner Peter G. Angelos to sell him the Masonic Temple, an architectural treasure ...

CRANFORD — Azure Masada Lodge 22, Free & Accepted Masons, and Azure Chapter 87, Order of the Eastern Star, are collecting funds to help rebuild the Cranford First Aid Squad building damaged in ...

Phillip's Masonic Lodge 238 and the Progressive Chapter 186 Order of Eastern Star are celebrating their 50-year history of helping those in need in the Clinton area and the men who founded the group.

In 1887 a mysterious castle-like building was constructed on Pacific Avenue, at the head of Walnut Street. The building’s architect was the popular Charles Wellington Davis, who had designed Santa ...

Ask someone what the Masons represent and the answers can range from satanic rituals and animal sacrifice to world domination. "It's amusing to hear," said Ray M.Davis Jr., a former Gainesville lodge ...

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