Here are some of the questions you should ask or consider asking:
1. Why did you join and what was most important to you when you joined? 2. What was it about Freemasonry that made you want to be a member?
3. What would you love to still see being done within the community by the lodge? 4. How did you motivate the brothers to come out to communication & study class? 5. What was the biggest thing that kept this lodge together and why? 6. Describe the strength of Black freemasonry back then when our numbers were higher than they are now? 7. What is the difference (good or bad) between when you became a MM in your Lodge and today? 8. What is a significant Masonic moment you have witnessed, experienced or heard about? 9. What was the culture surrounding education and brotherly love when you joined the lodge? 10. What is your favorite thing about this thing of ours? 11. What did you do to maintain the comradery amongst the brothers? How did you maintain the brotherly love? 12. What are the differences in the Lodge now and then? 13. Despite the years and tribulations what kept you devoted to the lodge? 14. If you could change something in your time to improve the lodge what would that be? 15. Looking at the organization when you joined vs now, would you still join? Bonus Question To ask a charter member of your lodge: What was going on at the time that caused you and the others to start our lodge and how did y'all come up with the name? You don’t have to use the questions I suggest, use them as a guide and I am sure you will have others that are even better than those that I have suggested. But whatever questions you decide get it done and ask them asap, don’t wait for another week to go by and have us lose another important voice in our history forever. Once you have completed your interview, if you have not done it yet, setup a YouTube page for your lodge and upload them to YouTube and begin sharing them with your lodge brothers, your jurisdiction and the body of Masonry as a whole and perhaps if we all spend some time and do this we will create a living, breathing digital archive of the living history and memory of each of our respective jurisdictions and individual lodges that will outlive us, outlive the brothers giving the interview and be available for our children and Grandchildren so that when they need to hear the wisdom of the ages from one who has gone the same way as they have, they will have many valuable voices to provide guidance to them even from the grave. All of us can remember a Past Master or senior brother who had the best stories, or who knew more about the Lodge than anyone else, who has since passed on. We missed our opportunity to record that important history, let us not miss one more day, or lose one more bit of history to laziness, to apathy, to poor planning or to just plain stupidity. This must be part of our charge moving forward, let no further part of our history be lost. Past Master Keith Treasure I am talking about you R.I.P.
Your brother,
R. · .W. · . Kevin P. Wardally
Grand Junior Warden – MWPHGL of NY
Past Master – Adelphic Union Lodge #14
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