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I have been negligent in submitting President’s Messages for publication here on our website, which several members have told me makes the Masonic Society, or at least its website, look defunct. Nothing could be further from the truth, and I apologize for the longstanding oversight.

To catch up, let me tell you about the Zoom webinar we hosted February 12 to hear the greatly anticipated comments of an eminent Freemason. We are working on editing the video of that event, and we will share it online for all to see soon. In the meantime, here is my summary of the memorable speech.

The Masonic Society Lecture 2021

In lieu of the Masonic Society’s usual banquet during the annual Masonic Week festivities in Virginia, we gathered via Zoom February 12 to host one of the most dynamic thinkers and persuasive speakers on the Masonic scene today. As president of the Society, I hadn’t anticipated the pandemic would still hound us into 2021, so I in fact had been planning for our customary dinner-lecture at the hotel in Arlington when I first contacted MW Bro. Akram Elias last June. It was my desire to find a speaker who would continue a theme opened by RW Bro. Eric Diamond, one of our Board members, who addressed the group in 2019 with a speech that rightly should arouse Freemasonry

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A Bibliography of the William R. Smith Collection
In the Library of the Supreme Council, 33º, S.J.

Larissa P. Watkins, Author
Joan K. Sansbury, Editor
Robert G. Watkins, Jr., Consultant
Akram Elias, Grand Master to Free and Accepted Masons

Reviewed by Frank R. Shaw, FSA Scot, Dawsonville, GA, USA
Email: jurascot@earthlink.net

This is a handsome book, beautifully adorned with many fine postage-sized illustrations and one of the best kept secrets in America -- the William R. Smith Collection of Robert Burns. This collection has been dormant since the death of the collector in 1912, and this book has been published in anticipation of the 250^th celebration of the birth of Robert Burns. It is one of many books you will see celebrating the birth of Burns in the coming year.

The article on Burns is of interest to those who are not familiar with the Masonic aspect of the poet’s life. Of equal note, if not more so, is an article by Kevin Fries on the life of the collector, William. R. Smith. Neither the collection nor the collector is well known outside the Masonic community, so Mr. Fries basically introduces Smith to the general public. I’m sure we will hear more from Kevin Fries in the future about this great Burnsian. I must add that the descri