More Philly pics

Philadelphia

Just got back from a short trip to Philly

The temple building is quite impressive, well worth taking the tour

You can also pick up some cool swag in their gift shop.

Around Back, St, John's cont.

Here's a few interesting pics around the outside

Inside...

Here are some pics of the blue room inside the St. John's temple

I've also included a detail of the plaque over the Master's chair, and the plaster work eye on the cieling.

Here's some detail of the front of the St.John's Temple. I was lucky, I got to attend one of the last meetings ever to be held in this building. More about that in a bit.

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Got back from my trip to St. John's Newfoundland last week, unfortunately I came back with a terrible head cold I'm just starting to get over. Here's some pics to get started, I'll write more in a bit

Ted

A little masonic photoshop art, for fun

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The town of Creemore Ontario

Took a drive up to Creemore with the family, just to get away from the city for the day.

The town is home to Creemore Springs beer. We lucked out and got a tour of the brewery. I was on my way back to the van to drive home, when I looked up and saw a familiar symbol...

Scottish Rite Cathedral Hamilton

Just this last Thursday I visited St. James Lodge, which meets in the Scottish Rite Cathedral in Hamilton, Ontario. I didn't get as much of a tour as I'd have liked, but there's always next time.

here's some pics of the exterior.

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Provincetown

Here's a pic of a lodge building in Provincetown, Cape Cod

More from Detroit

Here's some more pics from our recent Detroit visit. These are from the main theater. They aren't the best pics, but they give a sence of the scale and detail of the place. It seats upward of four thousand.

Gettysburg

Another place we stopped at last summer was Gettysburg. There's a masonic memorial there, next to the civil war cemetery. The town is a great place to visit, and stay a few days.

The Lost Ark

Here's another pic from inside the Washinton memorial.

See! We Masons do Have the Ark!!

Washington Masonic Memorial

Last summer the family and I made a stopover in DC for a couple days. While there, we visited the the George Washington Masonic Memorial. It's pretty cool. Take the tour, and bring your camera!

Book

Something I picked up while in Detroit. A book titled "Detroit's Masonic Temple"

This book has lots of historic pics of the temple, from the laying of it's foundations on. One of the books authors Alex Lundberg, a member of Detroit lodge #2 was present at our visit, and autographed the book.

FOOD!

Detroit Lodge #2

put on a great spread for dinner.

Prime rib with all the fixin's

Take note junior wardens, this is

what a hot meal is supposed to look like!

Timing for our Detroit vist, with Detroit Lodge No.2, was perfect. It just so happened that our grand master M.W. Bro. Gary L. Atkinson was also visiting with some other grand lodge officers. There were members of several Windsor lodges, as well a Hamilton lodge also visiting.

Detroit Temple: Crystal Ballroom

Here's a pic of one of the ballrooms in the Detroit temple called the "Crystal Ballroom" It is quite large, as you can tell from the staircase in the background.

DETROIT!!

We made it to the Detroit temple!!

More pics to come!!

Detroit Trip

I set up this blog a while ago, but haven't added anything lately. Now there's going to be something worth while! Some of the guys from my lodge and myself are taking a road trip to the big Detroit Masonic Temple on March 22nd. I should have some great pics to post when I get back.

TB