Lodge Alley was a street in Philadelphia that ran from the west block of 2nd Street, between Chestnut and Walnut Streets, connecting to Smith’s Alley. As you might have guessed, Lodge Alley was so named because the first Masonic Lodge building in Philadelphia stood at the corner of 2nd St. and Lodge Alley. Today, this…
Author: Michael Hodges
I finally deactivated my Facebook account
I’ve been wanting to for some time, but finally yesterday I deactivated my Facebook account. Honestly I’d love to just delete it entirely, but I don’t expect that to be an option any time soon, because of connections with my Masonic fraternity and sharing pictures and moments with my daughter to extended family. I just…
Brother Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr.
Today in Masonic History Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. passed away in 1932. Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. was an American Broadway producer.Ziegfeld was born in Chicago, Illinois on March 21st, 1867. He began his career in entertainment when his father, who ran the Chicago Musical College, opened a nightclub. The nightclub was less than successful despite Ziegfeld’s father’s…
Huw Parkinson’s 007: Goldenhair
This is hilarious! Unless you just have no sense of humor at all, regardless of your political leanings you’ll laugh on this one. 🙂
Dark Mode in macOS Mojave
I’ve been using macOS 10.14 “Mojave” for several days now and I love the option to change to “dark mode” in the System Preferences, and it’s a pretty easy few clicks to do it too. What I’d like to see though is a faster click to it, or option of it being totally automatic. On…
Masonic Humor: Two Master Masons and a hot air balloon
A little Masonic humor to end the week… Two experienced Master Masons were enjoying a flight in a hot air balloon when suddenly a thick cloud formed between them and the ground. Being without instruments, after half an hour they realized that they were well and truly lost. A short time later there came across…
A United American Grand Lodge of Masons
On this month of May in 1843, fifteen Grand Lodges sent representatives to a convention in Baltimore, Maryland to discuss the possibility of forming a national Grand Lodge and unifying the Masonic ritual of the American Grand Lodges. At this time, the Morgan Affair had taken its toll on membership and the outlook for Freemasonry…
Math Vandalism
Jeep Desk
Now that’s a cool desk! Hopefully though it\’s just a reproduction of parts and no original 1940s Jeep MBs were harmed in the making of it.
Grace in this World
There are truly wonderful people in this world, and today I met one of them. I thought I was about to have the worst day today, when I realized I lost my wallet when I went to get a sandwich on my way back from Walmart. I had the doors off my Jeep and was…