Every Freemason has a story.Every lodge has a story.
This is where you can write them down, collect them, and see them published: accounts of the lodges you have visited, the journeys you have made, and the adventures Freemasonry has led you to.
Not a writer? No matter. We will help you turn what you remember into an account worth reading, and worth sharing, again and again.
What is being lost
Stories often leave with the men who lived them.
Freemasonry has carried its members across towns, countries and continents for hundreds of years, and every journey has made a story of its own.
When a Brother is called to the Grand Lodge Above, his stories go quietly with him. The minute book records that he attended. It does not record the night he never stopped talking about, or what he took from a Brother he met once and never forgot.
Travelling Freemason is a place to write those stories down.
What you are writing
The history the minutes never kept.
You are writing about your Masonic adventures. The long drive to get there. The lodge that turned out to be nothing like you expected. The supper afterwards that went on far too late. The Brother whose story you have been retelling ever since.
On its own it is one good evening remembered. Together they become something none of us could write alone: the brotherhood itself.
Minutes keep the record of a meeting. This shows the brotherhood inside it.
How it works
Create an account
A short sign up, and we confirm you are a Freemason in good standing.
Tell it your way
Write it. Dictate it aloud and we will transcribe it. Or sit with a Brother and help him write his story down.
It is gathered
With your permission we collate them by lodge, by district, by trip, or your own personal journey.
Share it
With the lodge you visited, the Brethren who were there, and the wider archive.
Have it bound
A collection printed, bound and posted to you. Your travels, or your lodge's.
The record is being gathered now.
The first accounts will be gathered among the lodges of British Columbia, and the archive will open outward across North America from there.
Join now and begin writing. Stories can be sent once the archive behind them is finished.