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The brothers of Calumet Lodge 25 of the Free and Accepted Masons, Farrell, including, from left, 60-year-member Paul Flint, former Worshipful Master James Short, present Worshipful Master Isaac Fields and 57-year member Richard Frank Huntley, celebrate the lodge’s 91st year during a banquet Saturday at the Radisson Hotel, Shenango Township.
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John S. Mattox, curator of The Underground Railroad Museum in Flushing, Ohio, challenged Calumet Lodge members to celebrate and preserve their history during the lodge’s banquet Saturday. Mattox’s museum is a one-hour drive from the Shenango Valley.
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Calumet Masonic Lodge celebrates its resurgence

By Tom Davidson
Herald Staff Writer

“All history is recycled,” he said. “Is there anything new?

“We must be able to tell young people to help them with where they are going now,” he said.

His museum, which celebrates the Underground Railroad that was a network of people and places that helped slaves slip from bondage to freedom, is “about sharing history,” Mattox said.

Americans lionize people named Washington, Jefferson and Madison but tend to forget “Harriet and Fred,” he said, talking about influential African-Americans Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass, who were among the leaders of this country’s first civil rights movement.

“We’re here to recognize the achievements of our ancestors who did something,” Mattox said.

Men like G.F. Grant are forgotten today, but without Grant, who invented the golf tee, the country club sport wouldn’t be the pastime it is today.

Mattox’s museum has 4,500 items and is a one-hour drive from the Shenango Valley.

On the net: www.ugrrf.org



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