What makes a Lodge a Lodge? What gives each Lodge its unique characteristics? Is a Lodge a building? When members of a Lodge meet in a place other than their usual meeting place, are they not still a Lodge? Lodge 542 has had several meeting places in its 100-year history:...

by Walter M. Macdougall, PGM This author’s first Short Talk Bulletin article was published in 1965, when he was Master of his Lodge. During the past 65 years, Brother Macdougall has written, taught, been a faculty member at the University of Maine, and served as Grand Master of the Grand...

Some food for thought… We are living in our (future) good ol’ days… right here. Right now. Sure, there are ups and downs. Pain. Loss. Sorrow. But without these, we wouldn’t have the other moments. The ones we will look back on through the mind’s eye in the late hour...

Whether in caves or quarries, masons have been known to meet in some unusual spaces​. By David Harrison, Ph.D. The lights are dim and there’s a distinct echo as shoes crunch over the dirt floor of this Masonic hall. Of course, it’s no ordinary lodge: This is Zedekiah’s Cave, the...

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