The North Carolina Mason

March/April 2018

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Page 8 The North Carolina Mason March/April 2018 Taking it to the districts It happens every year. From January through May, in lodges large and small, from Murphy to Manteo, from Boone to Beaufort, brethren gather to meet and greet their new Grand Master. ey come together to laugh, catch up, to listen a little and learn a lot … and to chow down. Barbecue, steaks, Cornish game hen, fried shrimp, beef tips, chicken and pastry, and Brunswick stew are on the menu, prepared by the finest Masonic chefs (well, and sometimes their wives and sisters of the Eastern Star), showing their stuff. It's not just friends they have come to see. ere are gavels that travel, jewels that gleam, robes fit for royalty, a rainbow row of chairs pegged to the wall, stars from afar, shining tiled floors, theater seating of all shapes and colors … and a skull or two perched atop a dusty shelf. Most brothers arrive in suits. But some march to a different drummer, donning overalls or matching silken jackets, pulling on gloves so white they gleam, or rocking a black tie and tux every now and again. It doesn't matter who you are or what you wear, what's on for dinner or what's on the agenda. What matters is the joy, the friendship, the community that happens when brothers once again enter that sacred retreat of friendship and virtue … District meetings bring brothers together to hear news, appeals for giving and maybe even a good joke or two.

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