The Rite Times: 5/9/25

May 9, 2025

May 9, 2025

Final Call for Order of the Thistle

Time is running out to register for the Order of the Thistle! Register by Wednesday, May 21 to secure your spot. This year’s dinner is on Saturday, May 31, 2025, at the Sewall Castle, Needham Masonic Building, at 1101 Highland Ave, Needham, MA.


In the traditions of the United Kingdom, The Order of the Thistle in Scotland is one of the three most exalted orders of chivalry…


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Photos from View Boston

Thank you to everyone who attended View Boston on Friday, April 25 and made the event a great success! If you have any pictures you took during the evening and would like to share them you can add them to the google album, or click here to email them to the Webmaster to get them added to the album. Click the link below to access the album!

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Photo album

End of the Civil War

On May 9, 1865, President Andrew Johnson formally declared that resistance in the South by arms had ended. This decree is the one which has historically been accepted as the definitive end of the American Civil War, following four years of bitter and bloody conflict which had reshaped the United States.


Although the principal Confederate armies, the premier among them General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, already were in surrender, scattered fighting and residual uncertainty lingered…


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Important Dates:

May 9: End of the Civil War (1865)

May 31: Order of the Thistle

July 28: Teddy Bear Unity Classic

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