Our 2020 American Conference was cancelled as a consequence of the coronavirus and bookings have been refunded
A Collection of Conference Papers will be published shortly under the title Freemasonry on the Frontier
The Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, Boston
The Conference reflects the westward expansion of Freemasonry on the Frontier from the Atlantic coast in the early eighteenth century, to the Appalachians and Mid-West in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to the Pacific at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century.
| FRIDAY, 18 SEPTEMBER | |
| 14:00-14:30 | Registration |
| 14:30-15:15 | Welcome Remarks & Introduction |
| Ric Berman: ‘The American Frontier: reflections on the foundations of American Freemasonry’ | |
| 15:15-16:00 | Bob Cooper: ‘Scotland and pre-Revolutionary Masonic America’ |
| 16:00-16:45 | Brent Morris: ‘The Higher Degrees in the US, 1730-1830’ |
| 16:45-17:30 | Floor / Panel Discussion |
| Followed by an evening in Boston | |
| SATURDAY, 19 SEPTEMBER | |
| 09:00-09:30 | Welcome / Coffee |
| 09:30-10:10 | Mike Kearsley: ‘Rob Morris, the Conservators, and the failure to establish a Grand Lodge of the United States’ |
| 10:10-10:50 | Barry Hoffbrand: ‘Henry Harford, the last Proprietor (and Provincial Grand Master) of Maryland’ |
| 10:50-11:10 | Coffee / Break |
| 11:10-12:00 | Andreas Onnerfors: ‘Revolution and Race in in Nineteenth-Century German America’ |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00-13:40 | Ben Williams: ‘Freemasonry in the Territory of Colorado – Masons, miners, and the rush to Statehood’ |
| 13:40-14:15 | Hilary Anderson Stelling: ‘Early New York City Mark Medals’ |
| 14:15-15:00 | John Kyle Day: ‘Arkansas Prince Hall Freemasonry in the Nineteenth Century’ |
| 15:00-15:20 | Coffee / Break |
| 15:20-16:00 | Walter H. Hunt: ‘The ‘neo-colonial’ expansionism of Massachusetts Masonry’ |
| 16:00-16:40 | Leif Endre Grutle; ‘Scandinavian Immigrants and New World Freemasonry’ |
| 16:40-17:00 | Floor / Panel Discussion |
| 17:30-18.30 | Eighteenth-Century Demonstration Lodge in Period Costume |
| 19.00 | Reception & Dinner |
| SUNDAY, 20 SEPTEMBER | |
| 09:00-09:30 | Welcome / Coffee |
| 09:30-10:10 | Hans Schwartz: ‘Freemasonry in Revolutionary New England’ |
| 10:10-10:50 | John Wade: ‘Senator Bro. Samuel Latham Mitchill and Eighteenth-Century America’s Medical Education in Edinburgh’ |
| 10:50-11:30 | Jeffrey Croteau: ‘Joseph Cerneau vs. Emanuel De La Motta: A View of the 1813 Founding of the Scottish Rite’s Supreme Council, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, USA, Through the Lens of Religious Intolerance |
| 11:30-12:10 | Adam Kendall: ‘History’s Hidden Reverse: The Scandals and Secret Rites of Benjamin D. Hyam’ |
| 12:10-13:00 | Floor / Panel Discussion – Conclusions & Wrap |
| 14:30 | Walking Tour of Masonic Boston Depart from Grand Lodge of Massachusetts |
