Digging Up Our Roots

We think we all know the story of how Odd Fellowship began in North America: five brave souls, led by Thomas Wildey, held the first meeting in Baltimore in 1819 and, from there, Odd Fellowship exploded across the continent spreading friendship, love, and truth from sea to shining sea.  The reality, though, has a lot more detail and challenges than what we know.  Mike, Ainslie, and Toby delve into the history of the founding of our Order a couple centuries ago.  They reveal some of the challenges of the young lodge and structure and highlight the members who helped build and grow Odd Fellowship beyond that first meeting, including the authors of the Rebekah Degree and the Patriarchs Militant Degree.  The Shoutout goes to *another* new lodge, this time Citrus #118 in Florida.  Owing to the length of this episode, the hosts decided to skip the Odd Podge but it will return in future, shorter episodes.