TAMWORTH

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From the South: North on I-91 take the Lyndonville exit #23. Travel North on Rte. 5 through town and pick up
114 and travel about 25 miles to Island Pond. Watch out for the moose on this road! Proceed as above.From the
West and East: Rte. 105 to 114. Proceed as above
The Worshipful Master and Secretary for 2012 are
John Dunton, Worshipful Master
Jack P. Sloan, Secretary patsloan@myfairpoint.net
From a letter dated 7 th March 2003:
We scheduled to transfer the Travelling Gavel from Island Pond. Vermont. Lodge #44 to Windsor Vermont.
Lodge #18 on 19 th April 2003. We expect to work some degrees that evening and it will be well published,
Brother Herbie Hartford will be the Worshipful Master. Brother Bruce Pomeroy will be installed Grand
Master of Vermont, he belongs to that Lodge and he’s the only contact l have with email who is well aware of
thistransfer.
Brother Louie Barber from Golden Rule Lodge #5l Stanstead. Quebec. Canada wants the Gavel after
Windsor, and will contact them to let them know they would like it. Louis will probably travel with us to
Windsor to relay this message. Guess there having an anniversary celebration for Masonry in Quebec this
summer and they wanted the Gavel for that purpose. But they will let you know more, later.
Nice talking to you on the phone the other night, Hope this finds you in good health and less pocket change
from chasing down all these wonderful Gavels.
Information about Island Pond:
Population: 1,260 (2010)
. Island Pond is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Brighton in Essex County, Vermont, United
States. The population was 849 at the 2000 census It is part of the Berlin, NH–VT Micropolitan Statistical Area.
A letter from Rt. W. Bro. Bruce Pomeroy; District Grand Master
Rt. W. Bro. Bruce Pomeroy, DGM
8 th March 2003
Dear Bro. Howes:
Thank you for your informative letter concerning the travelling Gavel which will soon be coming to Windsor to
Vermont Lodge #l8, from Island Pond Lodge in north-eastern Vermont
It will be my pleasure to carry the Gavel to Bro. Louis Barber’s Lodge in Stanstead PQ. Canada this summer.
Thank you as well for your good wishes for my upcoming term as Grand Master of Vermont.
I hope that all is well in Australia this summer (for you, winter for us). The close friend lives in northern
Vermont and reports that the ice covering Lake Seymour in his neighbourhood is 30 inches thick this year
andthat they have had temperatures down to 40 degrees below zero Fahrenheit. That’s pretty chilly even for
Vermont. It has been a particularly cold and stormy winter here. It was just about zero degrees F, this morning.
We have had perhaps four days since November when the temperature has reached zero degrees Centigrade or
higher. We are looking forward to spring as you may imagine.
I hope things go well with you, your family and the members of your Lodge and Grand Lodge.
Thank you again for communicating with me,
Fraternally,
Bruce E. Pomeroy, RWDGM-Verm