OpenHouseNewYork
The husband and I took advantage of OpenHouseNewYork today and toured the Grand Lodge of the Masons of New York. A couple hundred people were there. Not bad, considering I'm guessing it wasn't one of the most popular sites on the schedule.

Masons give little talks on different floors on the building and they surprisingly gave contradictory answers to frequent questions - like how many lodges there are in New York and when the building was constructed. (Sure you're not a secret society - wink wink.)

The building's pretty cool and as it turns out, every famous person who ever lived was actually a Mason.

As it turns out, the Mason tours are offered throughout the year -- Monday through Fridays from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. so no need to cram it in this weekend. Tomorrow I'm going to try to at least get to the top of the arch at Grand Army Plaza for Day 2 of OpenHouseNewYork.

(No pictures from me this weekend. My Treo is supposed to arrive Monday.)
- posted by Amy @ 10/11/2003 06:23:00 PM