THE general tenor of a certain piece of reporting in recent days was ‘Human Rights Commission agrees IRA and gangland murders are the same’. Which piece of news came as a huge fillip to those unionists who maintain that the most recent conflict was a case of republican thugs trying to wreck the place out of sheer badness while the put-upon forces of the state tried to hold the ring and loyalist paramilitaries were forced into a sometimes over-enthusiastic and misguided response.
In 1990, I volunteered to do a series of oral histories for the National Museum of Bermuda on Bermudians involved in our maritime history. With their permission, I have selected George Fielding Swan, .
Freemasonry is the oldest fraternity in North America. The Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, located in Boston, was chartered in 1733, making the Grand Master the 3rd ranking Freemason in the world. The Grand Lodge of England was chartered first, in 1717,.