I have a lot of this stuff....

This ish of "Life" magazine depicts Freemasonry in 1956. It is old to me, but in terms of Feeemasonry, it is pretty fresh. To me this picture marks my personal experience, 10+ years in the Fraternity, as a teensy blink in that all-seeing eye. Masonry in its present form is over 300 years old. That's the written tradition, oral history is more flowery, locating origins in "Time Immemorial."