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The winning place in every Mason’s heart is his lodge
 Heroes? We have thousands of them
 These North Carolina Masons co-founded The United States of America
 North Carolina Masons in the Revolution
 A man, a college, a lodge—all dedicated to future Masonic leaders
 North Carolina Masonic Governors
 William Richardson Davie
 If you don’t want tears to come to your eyes, just skip this page
 Should we remember our 421 lost lodges?
 Montfort Medalists organize to perform more deeds of fraternal kindness
 Tracking priceless Masonic artifacts
 NC counties and cities named for Masons
 Cable tow’s distance? Try again
 Grand Masters
 Warning
Family connections
 Zebulon Baird Vance
 The Art of Fraternal Journalism
 Salute our traveling third degree teams
 Brother John Belk
 Shriners integrated their hospitals 27 years before the civil rights movement
 DeMolay welcomes young men
 Scottish Rite, University of Freemasonry
 Heroes among Masons
 It took 111 years to get North Carolina’s most beloved man buried as a Mason
 The Pack Square obelisk reaches for much more than the sky
 Gombroon
Eight Grand Masters from one blue lodge
 The birth of Masonry in North Carolina
 Born on the square and on the level
 “Lewis, lend me your leg”
 Abraham Hodge founded NC newspapers, was state printer, publicist
 Masons built UNC and Hezekiah Alexander’s house in true lodge form
 Unique lodge; unique name
 All have Masonic streets
 From North Carolina’s Shrine nobility comes a future Imperial Potentate
 George Washington Danced Here
 Ride with George Washington as he visits Charlotte both as President and Mason
 A story of Masonic heroism and brotherhood of historic dimension
 The Jack family of five heroes changed colonial American history
 Let freedom ring!
 Treasures bring pleasures to Charlotte Masons
 Thomas Polk and his house
 Thomas and William Polk saved the Liberty Bell
 The strange tale of two Abraham Alexanders
 Who cares?
 Best dammed river in America
 Enough! Mecklenburg Masons utterly reject Meck Dec doubters
 Priceless historic notes hidden in Waightstill Avery’s diary
 Hezekiah Alexander’s face brought to life
Historically the most important Masonic place in North Carolina
 Valueless or priceless? Only a Mason could know
 Jackson and Polk bonded as brothers
 Ziggy’s heart was in his Masonic music
 Home of Brother Jacob Rintels still looking great on Queens Road
 Shrine Bowl of the Carolinas
 Stadium has two Masonic ties
 A brother worth knowing—the first master of Excelsior 261
 The accountant on west 10th street
 The rise and fall of meeting places
 Tamandja first black Mason raised in Charlotte AF&AM lodge
 Zeb’s bronze bust has a history of its own
 Masons make life better for everyone
 Arthur Goodman, courtroom hero
 Jewish Temple founded by many Masons including its first rabbi
 S. Brent Morris, Mason of all seasons
 Fifteen places in NC are named ‘Mason’
 Should Masons believe the unbelievable?
 Brother Terry Sanford as Duke University President
 Eleven lodges serve eight active military installations in North Carolina
 The Lafayette Saga
 MESH is one of 80 managed communities succeeding throughout America
 Three NC founding fathers signed the Declaration of Independence. All were Masons.
 Among 5,000 items in museum-library, Zeb Vance’s apron is the crown jewel
 Meet Loretta, Governor Davie’s home
 Vance County, home of Kerr Lake
 Vance-Granville Community College
 Kinston remembers its greatest Mason but loses it treasures
 Biggest crowd in this town’s history! Only 200 lived here yet 12,000 came
 Wildacres retreat always open to Masons
 One little boy started it all
 Senator Sam J. Ervin, Jr. library and museum keep his leadership alive
 Priceless frescoes brought back to life in St. John’s 3 lodge room
 Children served by Masons sometimes grow up to serve Masons
 School of Graphic Arts fulfills the highest definition of charity
 Under President James Knox Polk, the United States doubled its size
 Caswell apron at NC Museum of History
 President Andrew Johnson was born in a kitchen loft near the Capitol
 Three NC Masons were elected US presidents—but who knows it?
 Brother Zeb’s statue still stands tall
 Is our conscience a treasure?
 York Rite Bodies
 It’s so because Jesse said so
 Masonic Temple building lives on
 Happy 100th birthday, Vesper 554
 Zeb’s end-of-war home now a museum
 Octagonal house centerpiece of Jones Masonic Campus
 Masonic Declaration of Independence
 Black Camp Gap monument to Masonry
 Zeb Vance birthplace a fine example of living history
 St. John’s 1 is an early NC lodge remembering its original building
 Joseph Adegboyega first black master of traditionally white NC lodge
 Masonic films in School of the Arts documentary collection
 The Andrew Jackson highway is also the Masonic trail from the sea to Tennessee
 Books about NC Masonry
 Richard Caswell made Kinston a Masonic city and himself immortal
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Produced by the public relations committee of the Grand Lodge AF&AM of Masons in North Carolina,
2921 Glenwood Avenue, Raleigh, NC 27628 MMVIII
Author/editor: Walter J. Klein wklein(at)carolina.rr.com