Secret societies are, by their nature, mysteries to people who aren’t part of them. But other people are aware of their symbols. This carved wooden shelf is decorated with symbols of the Odd Fellows.

When most people think of secret societies, they picture flowing robes, archaic symbols and dark incantations chanted in Latin. What they probably don’t think about is crafting. On a stormy Thursday ...

It’s not your usual art exhibition. It’s kinda strange, kinda mysterious, definitely fascinating. The 80 items currently on display at the Taft Museum of Art in Cincinnati pull back the curtain on two ...

Chest Lid with Masonic Painting (1825–1845) (image courtesy American Folk Art Museum, gift of Kendra and Allan Daniel, all images courtesy the Bullock Texas State History Museum and the American Folk ...

Find us some new members, the old guys told Ramon Martin, who was by several decades the youngest member of Odd Fellows Lodge 225 in the Houston Heights. That lodge had been around for a century, but ...