From the Quarries

To mark the Fourth of July, this FTQ compendium gathers together a selection of archive episodes exploring Freemasonry and the American imagination.

The collection moves from the revolutionary world of the Green Dragon Tavern, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, and Prince Hall, through the later controversies and constructions of American Masonry in Albert Pike and the Morgan Affair.

This is not simply a celebration of famous American Freemasons. It is a journey through the symbolic landscape in which American identity has been formed: lodges and taverns, revolution and race, secrecy and suspicion, frontier myth and public performance.

As ever, the question is not merely whether these men were Freemasons, but what their stories reveal about the Craft’s place in the wider culture that remembered, mythologised, criticised, and sometimes invented them.