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Calumet Masonic Lodge celebrates its resurgence By Tom DavidsonHerald 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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