Portsmouth Freemasons | St. John's Lodge #1

Please note:  The Stated Communication for August (Wednesday 6th) will open on Master Mason, not on Entered Apprentice as printed in the August Trestle Board. … Read More >>

Something NEW!!! On Wednesday August 27th we will have our first "Masonry and a Movie Night" in the "pub-room".  This is a strictly casual"just for the fun of it" event.  At 7:00 p.m.  we will showing the classic "The Man Who would be King".  Fresh Pop Corn will be provided (BYOB).  Following the movie there will be an open forum discussion about this movie's connection to Masonry.   … Read More >>

Dinner Reservations PLEASE!!!!!

July 16 th's Dinner is Prime Rib and in honor of Past Masters Night is free to those attending.  We really need everybody who intends to be there to make reservations to be sure we have enough.  If you haven't done so already, you can make a reservation simply by clicking on the Green Banner above this announcement. … Read More >>

St. John’s Sunday 2014

After being served early morning coffee and doughnuts by the William Pitt Tavern Museum staff, over sixty (60) Masons from lodges in eastern New Hampshire and officers of the Grand Lodge of New Hampshire joined St. John’s Lodge No. 1 in Portsmouth in its annual St. John’s Sunday observance.  St. John’s Lodge No. 1, has for many years celebrated St. John’s Sunday by marching from the William Pitt Tavern to attend services at St. John’s Episcopal Church on Chapel Street in Portsmouth.   After the … Read More >>

Vern Anderson awarded the Jeremy Ladd Cross Medal

    At the May 2014 Grand Lodge Spring Communication,  Brother Vern Anderson of St. John's Lodge No. 1 was awarded the Jeremy Ladd Cross Medal for his outstanding service to New Hampshire Masonry. The Cross medal, named after famed 19th Century Masonic lecturer Jeremy Ladd Cross, is the highest award a New Hampshire Mason may receive. … Read More >>

Masters and Wardens

The June Masters and Wardens meeting will take place at Rising Star Lodge in Newmarket at 6:30 p.m. on June 26, 2014.  This will be the first meeting of the newly "reformed" First Masonic District. … Read More >>