Hoosick Grange News

Hoosick Grange met on Wednesday, February 10, with Master David Cornell. After the business meeting the Lecturer had the program. The program had been changed, and all the officers were supposed to take part. Master David Cornell had a reading on an embarrassing moment. It was about a rubber banana spider. Everyone thought it was real. It was funny. Norma Brenenstuhl had an article – Is life too fast for you? We risk becoming the best informed society that has died of ignorance. Information is not knowledge. We get so much information all day long that “we lose our common sense.” Martha Babbitt had many quotations from Martin Luther King Jr. One I especially liked was “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” Louise Ciuk had readings – Don’t worry that your children never listen to you, worry that they are watching you. Marion Cipperly had before and after pictures of the Cipperly family, when they were young and older. There were 7 boys and 7 girls. She had many stories. The Lecturer told about The Red Faced Customers. It was about the good old days when many people had outhouses and what a chamber pot or a slop jar was. It was very funny that some younger people didn’t know what they were. The Lecturer had a closing thought – “Make new friends but keep the old; one is silver and the other gold.”
Our next meeting is on February 24. Marion Brenenstuhl is in charge of the program, Growing Hops. We hope the weather is good. Refreshment Chairman is C.F.A.