Masonic Villages News
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The Veteran’s Grove
In 1920, Robert Burns Lodge No. 464, Harrisburg, funded the planting of 268 oak trees on the Masonic Village at Elizabethtown campus, for the Masons who died serving our country during World War I.
Death – what’s to worry about?
In 1927, an S-4 Navy submarine was accidentally rammed by a Coast Guard Cutter, sending it immediately to the bottom of the bay. The entire crew was trapped.
Epitaphs of Life
I don’t know about you but every day I am amazed at the creativity of human beings - even at the time of death.
The Importance of Thanksgiving (Year Round!)
When Billy Walsh was a youngster, his family lived near Mrs. Smithson. A widow eighty years of age, Mrs. Smithson was in constant pain and crippled by rheumatoid arthritis that ravaged her body.
Dark Nights of the Soul
Let me begin by sharing with you the gospel according to Peanuts: Snoopy longs to be a writer. Snoopy begins every story he writes with those familiar words, "It was a dark and stormy night."
Life at 102
On April 27, 102 years ago, Bill Barnett was born. A lot has changed over the last 100-plus years, but some things have stayed the same.