D.C. Freemasons promote civic duty in Washington's public schools

The Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the District of Columbia, in partnership with the Bill of Rights Institute (BORI), is sponsoring the "Being an American" curriculum to over 50 Washington, D.C. public school American History, Government, and Civics department chiefs and teachers at the Scottish Rite Center on April 1.

"Being an American" will focus on founding documents such as the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights. The program will help define the concept of the "American Hero," as well as provide examples of the rights and responsibilities of American citizenship.

BORI was founded in 1999 and has delivered instructional materials to over 90,000 classrooms in 40 states.

In 2008, D.C. Freemasons are focusing on projects that will assist the infrastructure and development of the District of Columbia's education system.

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'Building the Temple of Liberty: Freemasonry and the Founding of America' lecture April 1

On Sunday, April 1 at 2 p.m., in a lecture titled "Building the Temple of Liberty: Freemasonry and the Founding of America," Dr. Steven Bullock, Professor of History at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, will discuss Freemasonry in the Revolutionary era, noting its role in the coming break with England, in the war that followed, and in the new American nation that emerged out of it.

The lecture will be held at the National Heritage Museum at 33 Marret Road in Lexington, Massachusetts.

The National Heritage Museum is an American history museum founded and supported by 32° Scottish Rite Freemasons in the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction of the United States of America.

On April 16, 2007, a new long-term exhibition "Sowing the Seeds of Liberty: Lexington and the American Revolution," will open. "Sowing the Seeds of Liberty", a cornerstone 3,000 square-foot exhibition, will present new perspectives on the part played by ordinary people in shaping historical events at Lexington's Battle Green on April 19, 1775.

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