The key to understanding Freemasonry for the uninitiated, is to accept that the craft requires careful study and a keen interest. You can read about it for years but until you’ve lived it, until yo...

Sitting down with the seasoned brothers of our lodge, you can't help but feel a bit awestruck. They've got this way of filling the room, not just with tales from the good old days, but with a wisdo...

You may have heard of “the world’s oldest profession.” But the world’s oldest organized profession was stone masonry.  Ancient civilizations realized you had better know what you are doing if you a...

Ten Master Masons, happy, doing fine; One listened to a rumor, then there were nine.

Nine Master Masons, faithful, never late; One didn't like the "Master," then there were eight.

Eight Maste...

UNCHANGING FREEMASONRY  

Anyone who has lived three-fourths of a century has seen the development of all the modern gadgets for office and home, as well as such things as the typesetting machine...

If your lodge were to close tomorrow, would your community notice?

This question was asked on a social media site, and the answers might, or might not surprise you.

The overwhelming majority ...

It is not ornamental, the cost is not great,

There are other things far more useful, yet truly I state,Tho of all my possesions, there's none can compare,With that white leather apron, which all...

Silent as the forgotten past are the Symbols of Freemasonry, yet we well may believe that all of Freemasonry is to be found in those inarticulate Symbols.  

We have rituals for our various degre...

 Freemasons have long admired the courage exhibited by the hero of our Hiramic legend, but few of us are familiar with an instance in our own country when the larger part of the :membership of a li...

 If his authorship be accepted - and I am inclined to accept it - Solomon, our legendary first Grand Master, made a superb gift to the centuries with his Ecclesiastes, from which Freemasonry gets t...

Not often do I find a Masonic lesson in a funny story, but there's one that seems to me to give the opportunity for developing one.  

At a gathering of women the conversation turned `to a discus...

Let me open by saying that "bad" publicity is still publicity and that any seed when planted has the "potential" to grow.

I didn't grow up around Freemasons and as far as I know none of my relat...

The chief architect of King Solomon's Temple was and is often referred to as "The Builder." This term is also applied general to the Craft, for every speculative mason is as much a builder as was h...

I shall never forget my first thought as I made my initial entrance into the Masonic Lodge that conferred the Entered Apprentice Degree on me, and followed with the Fellow Craft and Master Mason De...

The great artist, sculptor, printmaker, ceramics artist, etching artist, and writer Pablo Picasso said, “Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he...

It was Game Night at Island City Lodge at our last meeting. A fun game of Masonic Spelling Bea. A fun, and educational game.

 

The Watson-Cassoul apron given to George Washington (1782)In August 10, 1782 Washington wrote the earliest surviving exchange of his Masonic correspondents. These early letters were with his B...

It was hat night at Island City last night. From L to R: Keven Hansen, WM Rick Rausch, Dick Hansen, and David Imlah.

Island City Lodge #330 in Minocqua, presented the Arbor Vitae Fire and Rescue Department with an FST Fire suppression unit. The unit was made possible through fund raising efforts of the Lodge, and...

Island City Lodge #330 presented a $1000.00 donation to the Lakeland Pantry. The funds for the donation came, in part, from local fund raising efforts by the Lodge, as well as support from the Wisc...

Brothers,

This is a reminder that Island City Lodge #330 will be having our first annual fishing tournament on Saturday, June  25th, starting at 6:00 AM.  We will meet at the big water in front ...

The Minocqua Fire Department a generous donation from Island City Masonic Lodge #330 in conjunction with the Wisconsin Masonic Foundation of a Fire Suppression Tool. Pictured are (l-r) Dave Imlah, ...

Front Row Left to Right; David Imlah Jr. Secretary, Jerry Koudelka Junior Warden, Rick Rausch Worshipful Master (standing), Charlie Imlah Senior Warden, Leonard Pederson Treasurer. Back Row: Will M...

Island City #330 of Minocqua, in association with the Wisconsin Masonic Foundation, presented a check for $1000.00 to the Lakeland Pantry in Woodruff.Presenting the check to Lakeland Pantry Directo...

Island City Lodge #330, in conjunction with the Wisconsin Masonic Foundation, recently made a donation to the Lakeland Pantry in Arbor Vitae.

The Lakeland Pantry is a non-profit organization run...

From Left to Right

Chaplain - Richard Hansen, Senior Deacon - Charlie Imlah, Senior Warden - Jake Seever – DDGR3 and Installing Master, Worshipful Master - Jerry Koudelka, Tiler - Coty Hazelett,...

The Masons of Island City Lodge #330, of Minocqua, in association with the Wisconsin Masonic Foundation, recently presented a check to the Pastime Cub Adult Daycare Center, located at Ascension Lut...

ISLAND CITY LODGE # 330 F.& A. M. RAISES 4 MASTER MASON’S AT ONE TIME Island City Masonic Lodge #330, of Minocqua, in association with Forest Lodge #130 of Wausau, Raised four men to the Sublime De...