The official blog of Bill Hosler, PM
Recently I discovered my mother lodge and the lodge in which I served as Master, Three Rivers lodge #733, has ceased work and has merged with another lodge. I cannot explain the sadness I felt when I heard the news. In some ways I felt I did when my parents past away or when my […]
My latest piece “The reports of my death” has been published on The Midnight Freemasons website I hope you will check it out and if you like my work please share it with your friends and Brethren. I wrote this piece because recently I have heard Brethren declare that Freemasonry is dead or it is dying. I […]
This Saturday, June 24th 2017 marks the three hundredth anniversary of Modern, Grand lodge style Freemasonry when representatives of individual lodges met at the Goose and Gridiron tavern in London to celebrate Saint John the Baptist day and form the Grand Lodge of England. In honor of such an historic event the Knights of The […]
Terra Masonica is a new documentary by a Belgian Freemason Brother Tristan Bourlard. Brother Bourlard who in daily life is an author, and documentary filmmaker, decided to travel the globe in the three hundredth year of organized, Grand lodge style Freemasonry and answers the questions; What is our history? Where is Freemasonry today? and What is the […]
Worshipful Brother Chris Hodapp posted today on his Freemasons for dummies blog today about students from the Coastal Carolina University beautifying the outside of Grand Strand lodge #392‘s building in North Myrtle Beach. Students from the University’s “Special topic in arts” class spent countless hours transforming the lodge’s rather plain edifice into a beautiful work of […]
Brother Chris Hodapp has posted on his website that preorders are now being accepted for the “Inside the Freemasons” television program which was recently broadcast on the Sky one network in the United Kingdom. The five part series professed to go behind the closed doors and being to light the inner workings within English Freemasonry. […]
Recently I posted my website would be down due to unforeseen circumstances (In other words I hit the wrong button and accidentally deleted the site. Yes I am an idiot.). But now the site is back and better than ever! I intend for this site to be a place in which I can showcase and […]
I have just found out my long time friend and Brother James (Jim) Coleman has been diagnosed with colon caner. I met Jim not long after I was raised as a Master Mason in 2002, I cannot tell you how many times this man has been at my side, personally and Masonically whenever I needed […]
I stumbled upon a piece in the May 29th edition of the New Yorker about Maurice Murciano, one of the founders of the Guess clothing line and his purchase of the former Los Angeles Scottish Rite cathedral and his journey to transform the building into a gallery for his expansive art collection. The piece which […]
The latest installment of my 50 year fiction series entitled “The West Gate” has been published on The Midnight Freemasons website I am particularity proud of this piece. I started writing this piece in 2013. As I was just about to finish it and send it to my editors for corrections my laptop died. Recently […]