Live Stone had the pleasure to participate in the 2012 Grand Prairie, Texas MLK Day parade.

Friends,

We would like to invite you to the Live Stone Annual Masonic Banquet on February 25, 2012. Each year we host a banquet to celebrate the previous year, recognize outstanding contributions by our members, and fellowship with the community and Dallas/Fort Worth Masonic family.

This fun and entertaining event has always been the highlight of the season – and this year promises to be no different. In addition to a phenomenal guest speaker and delicious dinner, The Knights of the Noon Day Sun will also be hosting a social after the program complete with drinks and dancing.

Details:

February 25, 2012 @ 7pm
The Summitt (2975 Esplanada, Grand Prairie, Texas 75052)
Tickets: $40/person

For more information or to purchase tickets by phone, please call the Lodge at 972.957.7357.

The 2012 edition of our Annual Golf Tournament was a great success thanks to the participation from all our guests and members. We also appreciate The City of Grand Prairie and Prairie Lakes Golf Course for their support. We cannot wait until next year. We expect it to be our biggest tournament ever, and look forward to see you there.

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Sunday, September 25, 2011 from 1:00 PM - 6:00 PM

at Prairie Lakes Golf Course – 3202 SE 14th Street, Grand Prairie, TX

Tournament Registration: 1pm | Shotgun Start: 2pm

We invite you to enjoy a great afternoon of golf with the Brothers of Live Stone Masonic Lodge No. 152. This casual golf outing has become a favorite of our supporters and can be enjoyed by everyone from the beginner to pro golfer.

This year we’re running 2-man teams. For $75/person your green fees for 18 holes of golf, cart, food and drinks are included. Mulligans will also be sold for $3.00 each. There will be trophies for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place team winners.

All the proceeds from this tournament will help benefit the Lodge’s holiday charities that support local kids and seniors.

• Registration will begin at 1pm in the club house.
• Teams should secure their carts by 1:45pm.
• Game play will start promptly at 2pm.

Get more details at www.LiveStoneLodge152.com or by calling 972.957.7357.

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We had a great time this past weekend. What a success! Our annual Lodge Picnic and Family day was filled with music, dancing, great food, and tons of fun. Special thanks to the ladies of Areme’s Cornerstone OES and Walker Court HOJ for their help and support. We also appreciate all the other Lodges, Chapters and Courts that stopped by. See you all again next year!

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The time has come again for our Annual Picnic & Family Day and you’re all invite. The Brothers of Live Stone Masonic Lodge No. 152 F&AM look forward to having you and your families join us for a day of summertime fun and games on July 23, 2011 at Mike Lewis Park. We’ll be in the pavilion at 5pm with lots of food (only $5 to eat), bounce houses for the kids, music, games, raffles, prizes, and sports.

Everyone is invited – families, Masonic groups, churches, local organizations, bike and car clubs, etc. We look forward to fellowshipping with you all.

Have questions? Send an email to info@livestonelodge152.com or give us a call at 972.957.7357.

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Frank Jackson, left, and Willie High Coleman Jr. are, respectively, grand junior warden and chairman of the charitable foundation of the Prince Hall Grand Masonic Temple.

Reposted from the Star-Telegram – Friday, June 24, 2011 byTerry Evans (tevans@star-telegram.com)

FORT WORTH — Treasures from the 136-year history of African-American Freemasonry in Texas will be unveiled today with the grand opening of the Wilbert M. Curtis Texas Prince Hall Library Museum.

The museum in the Prince Hall Grand Masonic Temple, 3433 Martin Luther King Freeway, opens at 9:15 a.m. with a ribbon cutting.

For more than a year Curtis, the lodge’s grand master, led the effort to create and fill the museum, said Frank Jackson, the lodge’s grand junior warden.

“Everyone who wants to preserve artifacts from their Texas lodges can send them here,” Jackson said.

Plenty of people have, said Willie High Coleman Jr., chairman of the lodge’s charitable foundation. Some of it is genealogical gold.

“We have records of membership applications,” he said. “The applicants would have to tell everything about their families. For some of them, there’s no other record that thorough.”

The Lodge Room displays ornate furnishings and ritual items used by Prince Hall members for more than 60 years.

The collection includes an 1876 charter for San Antonio Lodge No. 1, the first lodge in Texas. Along one wall are massive portraits of past grand masters.

Smaller portraits depict such lodge members as William “Gooseneck Bill” McDonald, the first African-American millionaire in Texas.

“Gooseneck is probably the reason that the Prince Hall Grand Lodge is in Fort Worth,” Coleman said.

African-American Freemasonry was born when Prince Hall received a charter in 1776 from the Grand Lodge of England and established the first lodge, in Massachusetts, Jackson said.

“He was the first leader of African-American Masonry,” he said.

Freemasonry is a fraternal organization with charitable endeavors, said Burrell Parmer, senior warden for San Antonio Lodge No. 1.

“But it’s for the individual person to look into their heart and decide whether they want to exemplify the principles of Masonry: relief for widows and orphans, morality and being a stand-up individual and brotherly love,” he said.

For all of its existence in Texas, Freemasonry has also been a rallying point for men and women of character, Jackson said.

“Preachers, teachers, lawyers, doctors and bankers who helped develop communities and led their neighbors during catastrophes,” he said.

This report includes material from the Star-Telegram archives.

Terry Evans, 817-390-7620

Live Stone Lodge No. 152 F&AM: Thanksgiving Food Basket Charity from Odin Clack on Vimeo.

Each year, the members of Live Stone Masonic Lodge No. 152 collect donation of food. We create baskets (or boxes) that include various thanksgiving foods. Always included in each box is a whole frozen turkey. The baskets are then distributed by the group to the Lodge’s most senior members – those 65 and up – and any widows of past lodge members. The baskets also provide us the opportunity to visit with our elderly, share stories, laugh, and spread a little brotherly love. We appreciate the contributions that they have brought to us individually and to the collective lodge.