HESPERIA 411 MASONIC COMMUNITY DAYS 2007

Halsted Market Days Street Festival - Chicago
11-12 August 2007

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LEFT: Bro. Shiloh Madsen standing guard, Hesperia's booth and neighbors . . RIGHT: Secretary, Ron Ehemann + Lodge Master, Chuck Renslow sharing a meal.

"There is nothing better than to eat, drink, and do good to others." - Ecclesiasticus

LEFT: Bros. Ray Masterson (Past Master) and Fred Bloss with Chuck Renslow in the cool morning shade.
RIGHT: Bros. Rick Taman (Past Master and Certified Lodge Instructor), Shiloh Madsen and Senior Steward, Jim Voss share with passersby.

The colorful banners, produced by Bro. Ron Ehemann, depict two of author Dan Brown's
popular works of fiction to the left. On the right are two non-fictional works by John Robinson,
Born in Blood and Graham Phillips, The Templars and the Ark of the Covenant.
For more information refer to: Born in Blood and The Templars and the Ark of the Covenant

"What we think, is not confirmed, and what we think not, the gods contrive." - Euripides - The Medea

LEFT: Chuck Renslow beside Bros. Jim McDermott, Rick Taman, and Shiloh Madsen sharing a moment of levity. . . RIGHT: A parrot comes to roast or roost.

"Enlighten the people generally and tyranny and oppression of the body and mind will vanish." - Jefferson

LEFT: Chuck Renslow and Bros. Jim Voss, Rick Taman, and Shiloh Madsen early Sunday morning. . RIGHT: The Corn of Nourishment courtesy of Yoshi's Restaurant.

"I do not know what I appear as to the world, but to myself, I appear only as a boy playing on the seashore, while a great ocean of truth lay before me." - Isaac Newton

LEFT: Bros. Tom Wood, Senior Deacon Marino Pallotta, and Junior Warden Robert Harvey in the heat of the late afternoon on Sunday.
RIGHT: Brilliant and colorful Flowers adorn our neighbor's booth.

"It seems to me that the meanest flower that ever blows does give thoughts too deep for tears." - Wordsworth - Intimations of Immortality

LEFT: Chuck Renslow surveying the passing crowds with Shiloh Madsen nearby. . . RIGHT: Yoshi's Wine of Refreshment, but not just yet meant.

"That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet." - Dickinson
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LEFT: A Chinese Dragon dances in the street before us. . . RIGHT: Light Jazz and Swing at the nearby stage shatter the random noise with music to melt the stars. .

"They have gone to join the choir eternal, whose music is the joy of the world." - T.S. Eliot

LEFT: Pamphlets, invitations to Friend's Night, and bracelets. Perhaps synchronitically, a vat of boiling oil
(contributing to the pleasure of the hot summer day) can be seen to the right, while several husks of corn and wine are out of frame to the left.

RIGHT: The Great Seal of the United States (found on every dollar bill, which some consider as depicting masonic elements)
adjacent to the Seal of the Grand Lodge of Illinois. http://www.masonicinfo.com/greatseal.htm

"And the sun leapt up into the heavens from the splendid east to give light to the immortals,
and to men and women who plow the earth, sail the seas, and love one another." - Homer - The Odyssey

LEFT: Pamphlets, Invitations to Friend's Night, and bracelets for distribution to the masses. . . RIGHT: Founding Father and Master Mason, Benjamin Franklin.

"Only that day dawns to which we are awake. The sun is but a rising star." - Thoreau - Walden Pond

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of the Jefferson Park Blue Line Train and Bus Terminal.

Approximately 3 blocks NE of the intersection of Lawrence (4800 N) and Central (5600 W)

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