My First Visit To The Library
Where Emeth gets to live forever
In late September I wrote about the Richmond Library and Museum in Oregon becoming the forever home of the essays I’ve written here and elsewhere. This is a truly amazing honor for me, and that previous post can be found here.
I decided at that time that in order to make the project manageable, I’d divide all these writings into three groups, based on dates, and deliver each group once it was ready. It is a fairly simplistic, but quite time consuming process, taking all the writings, formatting them to look proper for the offline world, and creating both physical and digital copies.
It took me about a month to do the first third of the essays. Then it took me about another month to find a free day when I’d have time to make the drive down to Oregon to both deliver the items, but also to see the beautiful Library that I’d only seen in photographs before.
Well, today was the day. And what a truly amazing facility it is.
VW Clay Anderson joined me, and we were given a great tour of the building and collections. This is what a library, and at least to my eye, a reading room should be. I can’t imagine a better place to read than in the large open center of the building as it is filled with soft natural light from high above.
While there we got to spend some time with Grand Historian Johnny Edwards, Grand Secretary MW James Morgan, and Grand Master MW Craig Sipp. A superb welcome.
If you haven’t yet visited this beautiful Library and Museum, I’d certainly encourage you to do so. Information about it can be found at:
Robert M. Richmond Library & Museum
Who would have thought years ago, when I first started trying to write about our Ancient Craft that someday someone would feel the words I string together important enough to be protected forever in a humidity controlled, climate controlled, fireproof room? Certainly not I.
I’m beyond pleased that the words will live on, and deeply honored to have them do so in such an amazing repository of our shared history.
Now about that trunk I was shown at the library today in Oregon… the trunk that the original dispensation from Missouri came over in…
A fine Masonic mystery for another day!
I have noted in my Lodge newsletter that you are and always will be a contemporary key influencer and thinker in our gentle craft.
Most excellent MW. You are always welcome. Next time you are down we must do the walk through of our old Masonic and Eastern Star Home. Meal is on me!! Jje GH