THE Freemasons, once a shadowy and exclusive fraternal society that dates to medieval Britain, are desperate for new members in the United States. But their recruitment efforts may have suffered a ...

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On this day in 1753, George Washington became a Master Mason, the highest rank in Freemasonry. His promotion occurred at the masonic lodge in his hometown of Fredericksburg, Virginia. He was 21 at the ...

Freemasonry has long had a relationship to the politics of both left and right. Bourgeois revolutionaries in France and America and modern mainstream politicians have all been members, as were some ...

Paul Fulton Gleason, of Winchester, was installed as the 89th Grand Master of Masons in Massachusetts. Gleason is following in the footsteps of Past Grand Masters like Paul Revere and General Joseph ...