Once again the Otsego-Schoharie Masters and Wardens golf tournament was a great success. Eleven teams battled for golf supremacy and bragging rights for the next year, and when the final putt hit the bottom of the cup all the Brothers friends and family gathered for a steak dinner and the awarding of prizes, 50 / 50 raffle and door prizes.
The results are as follows:
We had a fun afternoon, picnic and the Oneonta Outlaws Ball Game at Oneonta Neahwa Park Large Pavilion. Steve Garreau and Rick Scheiner competed for King of Croquet, Picnic Photos
Fund raiser: Marathon for a better life root beer float sale
Marching in the Memorial day parade
Slideshow
Videos at YouTube: Heart cells 1 Heart cells 2
The complete text and video of the CBS TV segment on Freemasonry, filmed in part with our NY Brother Masons and broadcast worldwide this morning (December 8, 2013) is available on line at the following link:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/inside-the-secret-world-of-the-freemasons/
Formerly the property of Yorktown Lodge, Virginia, this clock stood in the lodge rooms when George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette visited in October 1783., and at the Masonic Banquet held following the surrender of Cornwallis which signaled the end of the American Revolution.
Freemasons fought on both sides of the Revolution, although most Americans are familiar with those Founding Fathers were also Freemasons: Washington; Benjamin Franklin; Paul Revere; John Hancock; Lafayette; Ethan Allen; Baron von Steuben; together with none signers of the Declaration of Independence, nine signers of the Articles of Confederation, and thirteen signers of the United States Constitution. Many Freemasons saw the establishment of the American Republic as the culmination of the Masonic ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity.
R∴W∴ Alexander Brannan, R∴W∴ David Stoy, and W∴ Bruce L. Van Buren had the honor to present R∴W∴ James R. Forbes with his appointment as Grand Representative of the Sovereign Grand Lodge of Malta near the Grand Lodge of the State of New York.
