The donation of 100 trees was done in the memory of Acacia Lodge’s first Worshipful Master, Luke A. Lockwood of Riverside, and in memory of our most recently departed Brother, David N. Theis. Continue Reading →
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Melillo: The Merritt & Lyon Families, and a Smidgen of the History of the Greenwich Western Frontier
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“In the later part of last year, the author, who is a member of the board of the Greenwich Preservation Trust, as well as the Secretary of the masonic lodge, Acacia No. 85, received word from Jeffrey Bingham Mead that there were two portraits in Orrington, Maine that were of Captain Daniel Merritt and his wife Sarah Lyon. The Lord knows how the portraits made it up there, yet besides that interesting story, there was a consensus that these pieces of Greenwich history and art be brought back home.” – Andrew Melillo Continue Reading →