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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners I am a fan of the Emmy award-winning Apple + TV show, Ted Lasso. The title character, Ted Lasso (Jason Sudekis), is a former Division II College Football coach hired to coach a Premier League Football team, AFC Richmond. Ted moves along with his trusty side-kick Coach…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners Newly Initiated Noble Darin Lahners I recently joined the Shriners (aka Shriners International formally known as the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. In all honesty, up until about a month ago, joining the Shrine was the furthest thing from my mind. This changed when…
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by Midnight Freemason Guest Contributor MWB Russ W Smith Editors Note: Before I wrote my article: http://www.midnightfreemasons.org/2021/09/let-there-be-light.html, I had reached out to the Grand Lodge of Idaho to get information on Arco Lodge #48. I received an answer from Most Worshipful Brother, Russ W Smith, who is the current GrandMaster of the Grand Lodge of Idaho…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners It has been said that the First Meeting that an Entered Apprentice attends is the most important meeting of a Freemason’s career. I would argue that it’s the first meeting after they’ve been raised as a Master Mason, because as an Entered Apprentice, honestly, you don’t have…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners This past weekend, I had the opportunity to travel to Kentucky with Senior Midnight Freemason contributor, Greg Knott. Greg has a home right off of Lake Barkley. Saturday while trying to decide what to do, I asked Greg if he had ever been to the Patton Museum…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners A recent road trip to Salt Lake City, Utah with my girlfriend, Lisa, and youngest son, Spencer, took us from east-central Illinois to several cities, National Parks, and National Monuments on the way. In order to get to Craters of the Moon National Monument, one would find…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners Brethren and Guests of Homer #199 It started with a conservation between Illus. Bro. Steven Harrison, soon to be Illus. Bro. Greg Knott and myself. Although it was derailed last year due to the pandemic, Steve Harrison has always been kind enough in the past several years…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners As an editor, I try not to run consecutive articles by the same author on the blog. However, something that happened to the District Education Officers (DEOs) and Area Education Officers (AEOs) of the Grand Lodge of Illinois this past Saturday at the District Deputy Grand Master…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners As I write this, the Delta variant of Covid-19 is sweeping the nation. While there is no evidence that the Delta variant makes people more severely sick, it is around twice as contagious as the original SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) virus.[1] According to research from Johns Hopkins University, the average number of daily…