Last night, Re ne and I watched a National Geographic program on the Freemasons, then looked up a bunch of stuff about them on the internet.
Did you know that Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Nat King Cole (essentially the most successful African American musicians before the Civil Rights Movement) were all Freemasons?
Also, a crapload of presidents from the Founding Fathers to contemporary times were Freemasons, the latest one being Gerald Ford.
See Wikipedia's full list of famous Freemasons here.
You might remember in the DaVinci code the Rosslyn Chapel, which is closely associated with the Knight's Templar and the Freemasons, the location for the ending of the book.
Well, guess what? Roslindale, MA, the next neighborhood over from where I live in West Roxbury, the neighborhood where Nana and her sisters grew up, that was named after Rosslyn village, where the Rosslyn chapel is located. It's a conspiracy. Of what, I don't know. But every time someone talks about the Freemasons, they always mention conspiracy, so I'm just going along with the crowd.
Or it could be that a lot of people who settled in Roslindale were from Scotland and therefore, when the post office was established there, and they had to have an official name instead of "South Street Crossing" which was the original name for the area, some guy thought it looked a lot like Rosslyn but it also was surrounded by lots of hills, hence Roslindale. (At least, that's according to the history story on the Rozzy Board of Trustees.)
Anyway, this blog entry is a lot like the show Re ne and I watched - lots of periphery information, nothing in details. It's because the Freemasons are a society with many many secrets, so any thing you say about them is superficial information, since the deep stuff can only be known to the members. Interesting...Reminds me of something...
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