Thursday, September 16, 2010

Oddfellows Remembered


Erected by the Grand Order of Oddfellows, I do not know much about them, but wiki says: "In smaller towns and villages, there were too few Fellows from the same trade to set up a local Guild, so Fellows from a number of trades banded together to form a local Guild of Fellows from an odd assortment of trades. Hence, Guilds of Odd Fellows."

7 comments:

  1. Perhaps that is where the expression, "he's an odd fellow" came from?

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  2. That's a different view. I usually see it from the other side.

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  3. Me too, tother side. Corner Park & Elizabeth erected in 1921 about the time HP was sliced open for the placing of the tunnels for the subway.

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  4. If I don't get down to Sydney soon and see all this stuff, I am going to die!

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  5. Heehee, I like the name!

    Very interesting history too. Thanks, I enjoyed this.

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  6. I have met a few odd fellows from time to time. I can't say I wanted to remember them, but these guys deserve the plaque.

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  7. That's interesting. In the small town I grew up in their was an Oddfellows Lodge up the other end of the town to the Masonic Lodge. I though the fellows that belonged to both of them were rather odd.

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