The Traveling Ashlar Weekly Trestleboard | Edition 0001 | Week of August 17, 2026 · A.L. 6026

Masonic News From Around the World

Stories of travel, Brotherhood, history, and the people and places that keep the Craft moving.

Traveling Ashlar has always been about more than where we go. It is about who we meet, what we learn, and the history we carry with us.

Each week, we look around the Craft for stories worth sharing. Old Lodges, unusual traditions, Masonic landmarks, Brothers doing good work, forgotten history, strange headlines, and the occasional story that could only happen in Freemasonry.

This week takes us from Italy to Queens, London to northern England, and halfway around the world.

Different places. Different stories. Same Brotherhood.

Here is what caught the Traveling Ashlar eye this week.

In this edition

Two Canceled Funerals Reopen an Old Argument Between Rome and Freemasonry — Rome, Italy

Inside the Vault: Royal Masonic Treasures Return to View in London — London, England

Ghost Hunters Spend a Summer Night Inside a Century-Old Masonic Hall — Ryton, Tyne and Wear, England

A Revolutionary-Era Door Finds an Unusual Home Inside a Queens Masonic Temple — Astoria, Queens, New York

Seventy-Five Years in the Craft: California Lodge Honors an Extraordinary Masonic Milestone — Los Angeles, California

In Freetown, a Masonic Water Project Measures Relief in 10,000-Liter Tanks — Freetown, Sierra Leone

On Australia's Central Coast, Masonic Support Reaches the Surf — Central Coast, New South Wales, Australia

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