View Articles

RW William Thomas, Deputy Grand Master, welcomed the incoming Worshipful Masters of the Otsego-Schoahrie District by presenting the Master's Investiture Ceremony at Bump Tavern, The Farmers' Museum, Cooperstown. The O-S District has been holding their annual investiture ceremony at Bump Tavern since the late 1990's. Dinner at Otsego Lodge No. 138 followed the ceremony. DDGM Roy Bilby was pleased to host the new DGM and other Grand Line officers.

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:

Fund raiser: Marathon for a better life root beer float sale

Marching in the Memorial day parade

Slideshow

Slideshow
Videos at YouTube: Heart cells 1 Heart cells 2

Slideshow

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/

This clock is on display in the lobby of the Grand Lodge of New York Robert R Livingston Masonic Library.

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.

Members of Richfield Springs Lodge present at the official visit of RW Roy Bilby, DDGM.
It was the last meeting at that site.