I delivered this presentation in 2005 while a participant in the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts\' Low Country Summer Institute. MESDA is located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

1. “ So Mote It Be”: Masonic Symbols in Decorative Arts from the Carolina Low Country

2. Hogarth’s Night (Satire)

3. Origins of Freemasonry

4. Masonic Work

5. Freemasonry in Colonial America Grand Lodge of England and a central meeting between four lodges of London in 1716 at the Apple Tree Tavern Reached North America in the 1730s and each of the thirteen colonies had established lodges by 1765 The earliest lodge of Freemasons in America was organized in Philadelphia’s Old Tun Tavern in 1730-31.

6. Freemasonry in Colonial America

17. Charleston Masonic Decorative Arts Master Mason’s Apron by Thomas Coram

18. Charleston Masonic Decorative Arts Masonic Aprons

19. Charleston Masonic Decorative Arts Scottish Rite, York Rite, and Knights Templar

20. Charleston Masonic Decorative Arts Master Mason’s Apron by Thomas Coram

21. Where Do We (I) Go From Here?