A Publication of the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction

October: Overcoming Dyslexia

Last October the 32° Masonic Learning Centers for Children, Inc., held two “Walks to Help Dyslexic Children” staged in Massachusetts; one in Lexington at the Supreme Council headquarters, and the other at the Valley of Lowell, 20 miles to the north. The two walks served as a pilot program.

The number of events will mushroom in 2004 to 53 walks, and will take place in all parts of the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction.

Representing 41 learning centers and 12 Valleys, the 2004 “Walks to Help Dyslexic Children” are scheduled for October, which has been titled, “The Month to Overcome Dyslexia.”

Sag Harbor Celebration

Mark Tabbert, 32°, curator of Masonic and fraternal collections at the National Heritage Museum in Lexington, MA, has provided assistance to Hampton Lodge No. 111, Sag Harbor, NY, for a new Masonic exhibition that opened recently at the Sag Harbor Whaling and Historical Museum.

The exhibition highlights 200 years of Freemasonry in Sag Harbor and will remain on display until Oct. 17.

A symposium in October will highlight Tabbert and feature two other Masonic scholars.
The National Heritage Museum, built in 1975 by voluntary contributions from Scottish Rite members, is located on the grounds of the headquarters for the Supreme Council, NMJ.

Posters from the World Wars

Poster: One of the Thousand YMCA Girls in France, ca. 1918 (Neysa Moran McMein, New York).

The archives of the Van Gorden-Williams Library at the National Heritage Museum is best known for its American Freemasonry documents. It also possesses much Americana, documenting the history of the nation.

An example of such Americana is a collection of posters from the First and Second World Wars. In 1996, the Galford Family of Concord, MA, donated over 600 such items to the archives, and recent acquisitions have increased the library’s holdings. Together with additions from other donors, the library has more than 750 posters from that era.

An exhibit based on the collections is planned for future display. Titled “Hold Up Your End! Images of Women and World War I,” it will feature roughly 25 World War I posters depicting women as symbols of America; working in munitions factories, as nurses, and as YMCA workers at canteens for the soldiers in America and abroad. The exhibition will tell the story of how this war work changed the role of women from 1917-20.