18 February 2002

Record of past changes to the web site:

12 November 2005 -- Corrected links in Light pages.

29 October 2005 -- Added November 2005 Trestle Board, updated event calendar.

3 October 2005 -- Corrected date of Masonic Service Bureau Meeting in October Trestle Board event calendar (webmaster error =\ ).

21 September 2005 -- Added October 2005 Trestle Board. Added new event calendar.

4 September 2005 -- Finished correcting internal page pointers for Poetry section. Links now function correctly. Thanks to Brother Tony Robinson for pointing out my missing the command that re-directed pointers to the actual place where the poem is on the page. Added the Day/Night bar, replacing the standard line separating text in all the poem pages. Added some calendar/event updates.

2 September 2005 -- Added the August, July and June 2005 Trestle Board.

24 August 2005 -- Added the September 2005 Trestle Board.

19 August 2005 -- Added email links to Officers on the Officers page.

11 August 2005 -- Setup subdomains for Light, Poetry & Trestle Board, ported data from old site, remodeled, repaired links.

10 August 2005 -- Corrected link errors in link bar, ported over all files from old site, deleted remaining non-operative links.

9 August 2005 -- Copied most of the images from the old website into FrontPage and made sure all links were still addressable, and the ones that were not active were removed.

18 February 2002 --  Cleaned up the back issues of the TB, removing superfluous graphics. Added the January, 2002 Trestle Board. Added the February, 2002 Trestle Board.
6 January 2002 --  Added the October, 2001 Trestle Board. Added the November, 2001 Trestle Board. Added the December, 2001 Trestle Board.
1 November 2001 --  Added the June, 2001 Trestle Board. Added the July, 2001 Trestle Board. Added the August, 2001 Trestle Board. Updated the list of Past Masters. Updated the list of current officers. Removed list of links in favor of listings in the Open Directory Project. Extensively reorganized the site architecture.
10 July 2001 -- Updated Trestle Board prototype page. Added February, 2001 Trestle Board. Added March, 2001 Trestle Board. Added the April, 2001 Trestle Board. Added the May, 2001 Trestle Board.
26 February 2001 -- Updated EMason web ring data.
28 October 2000 -- Added a new page counter. Added the October Trestle Board.
16 September 2000 -- Moved website to personal web site after star-telegram.com ceased IP support. Counter at over 6,300.
1 August 2000 -- Added abstracts of Volume 10 (1932) of the Short Talk Bulletins. Added the text of "The Apron", a Short Talk Bulletin published in June, 1932. Added a Lodge Memorial Service from the 1963 Grand Lodge Proceedings. Added the August, 2000 Trestle Board.
7 July 2000 -- Reached 6,000 visits on the counter! Added the July 2000 Trestle Board. Added excerpts from the 1963 Grand Lodge Communication. Added a Miscellaneous Writings IV page.
13 June 2000 -- Updated events page. Updated officers page for new Masonic year. Added June, 2000 Trestle Board.
13 May 2000 -- Added the May, 2000 Trestle Board. Added poetry to the Preservation Project.
19 April 2000 -- Split the Excerpt of Grand Lodge Communications into decade pages. Abstracted Volume 9 of the Short Talk Bulletins. Added the April 2000 Trestle Board.
7 March 2000 --  Found and fixed a missing phrase in the Sam Cantey Burial Service. Added to Miscellaneous Writings II. Completed Miscellaneous Writings III. Added a photo to the officer page. Added the March, 2000 Trestle Board.
2 February 2000 -- Added the Grand Lodge of Texas "Stephen F. Austin Outstanding Website Award". (WHOOO-AH!) Added the text of the Short Talk Bulletins "The Reputation of the Fraternity" (dated April, 1930), "The Candidate" (May, 1930), "The 47th Problem" (October, 1930). Added Abstracts of the 1930 Short Talk Bulletins. Set up a second page for future STB abstracts. Found and fixed a missing link to the "Working Tools" page. Added Miscellaneous Masonic Writings I and II. Added the text of George Washington's First Inaugural Address.
26 January 2000 -- Added to Poetry Pages. Added the excerpts from the 1981 Grand Lodge Proceedings. Worked on adding Volume 6 (1928) and Volume 7 (1929) of the Short Talk Bulletin Abstracts. Added the text of Short Talk Bulletin "The Future of Masonry" dated September 1928; "Acacia Leaves and Easter Lilies" dated April, 1929.  Added the February 2000 Trestle Board. REACHED 5,000 VISITS ON THE HIT COUNTER.

31 December 1999 -- Added the 1978, 1979, and 1980 Excerpts of the Grand Lodge Proceedings. Added Suggested Reading List from "Lodge Officer Training Manual" (Grand Lodge of Texas). Added many poems to the preservation project. Added the January, 2000 Trestle Board.
25 November 1999 -- Added many poems to the Poetry Preservation Project. Added the December, 1999 Trestle Board.
11 November 1999 -- Checked links on Masonic Light page. Joined the Texas Masonic Web Ring.
6 November 1999 -- Spell checked many pages. Added the November, 1999 Trestle Board. Added new poems to the Poetry Preservation Project.
12 October 1999 -- Added the Ritual for Leveling a Cornerstone. Added the October, 1999 Trestle Board. Fixed the driving instructions link. Verified links.
24 August 1999 -- Updated officers list for new Masonic Year. Updated the events page. Added the June, July, August and September Trestle Board Content. Updated the Trestle Board index page for the new year. Added several new poems.
3 May 1999 -- Added the May, 1999 Trestle Board.
5 April 1999 -- Added the April, 1999 Trestle Board.
30 January 1999 -- Added poetry to the Brotherhood page. Added the text of the 1972 Optional Masonic Memorial Service. Added the March, 1999 Trestle Board.
26 January 1999 -- Added poems to the Builders page. Added excerpts from the 1975 GL Communication. Added excerpts from the 1976 GL Communication. Added excerpts from the 1977 GL Communication. Added the February, 1999 Trestle Board.
18 December 1998 -- Added more links to Masonic Writings on the Light page. Added poetry to the Working Tools and Masonic Life pages. Added a link to dfw.com, a product of Star-Telegram Online Services, who sponsors this website. Added the January, 1999 Trestle Board content.
23 November 1998 -- Added the essay "Preparation" by Carl Claudy, as printed by the Grand Lodge of Texas in 1925. Added the text of the Short Talk Bulletin "The Spirit of Masonry". Added link to text of the Short Talk Bulletin "The Book of Constitutions Guarded by the Tiler's Sword". Added link to the text of the Short Talk Bulletin "What is Masonry". Recorded an EXCELLENT MASONIC WEBSITE AWARD 1998 from Brother Bruno Virgilio Gazzo, Pietre-Stones Webmaster. Updated the "Masonic Books List". Began adding abstracts for Volume 6 of the Short Talk Bulletin. Added the December 1998 Trestle Board.
20 October 1998 -- Added poems to the Brotherhood page. Joined the Square and Compasses WebRing.
18 October 1998 -- Added the November, 1998 Trestleboard.
25 September 1998 -- Finished adding the abstracts of Volume 5 of the Short Talk Bulletins. Added this month's reading to the Books List. Added the October, 1998 Trestleboard.
17 August 1998 -- Added indications of respect for deceased Past Masters. Added poetry to the Builders page. Refined the 1999-2000 year events. Added the content of the September 1998 Trestleboard.

21 July 1998 -- Began to add the abstracts for Volume 5 (1927) of the Short Talk Bulletins. Added the full text of the STB entitled "Secrecy". Added the full text of the STB entitled "More Light". Added the full text of the STB entitled "G". Added the full text of the STB entitled "The Lodge". Added the full text of the STB entitled "From Left to Right". Registered the web site with several of the content rating services. Added the August, 1998 Trestle Board.
20 July 1998 -- Added "The Broken Column Unbroken" by Rob Morris. Added a link on the Location page pointing to a photo of the Lodge Building as seen from Space. Updated the Books List. Finished the abstracts of Volume 4 of the Short Talk Bulletin. Added poetry to the Builders' page.
30 June 1998 -- Updated the list of officers for the new Masonic year. Updated the Events page. Added poetry to the Seasons page.
23 June 1998 -- Quick update to add the June and July issues of the Trestle Board, fix a link to the Lodge of Research web site and a change in the Driving Directions utility on the Location page.
19 June 1998 -- Added list of poems in the Preservation Project, sorted by title. Added poetry to the Seasons and Brotherhood pages. Added a Grand Lodge of Texas document from the 1920's entitled "To the Young Men of the Masonic Fraternity". Began adding Volume 4 (1926) to the Abstracts of the Short Talk Bulletins (STB). Added the full text of "Truly Prepared" the May, 1926 STB. Added Masonic Prayers by The Rev. Gregory A. Megill of the Texas Lodge of Research. Added a set of links to a wonderful Masonic Education program created on-line by the Grand Lodge of Arkansas. Added links to the Religious Links page. Added links on the Masonic Light page to several other good sites containing Masonic writings.
18 May 1998 -- Added additional links to Masonic Light page. Added several photographs to the history page. Finished typing the 1976 centennial history. Placed the list of Past Masters on a separate page. Added poetry to the Working Tools and Brotherhood pages.
6 May 1998 -- Added Charlie Groves' death information to the page containing the poem written in his honor. Added the text of the Sam Cantey Revised Masonic Burial Service. Added poetry to the Brotherhood, Working Tools and Masonic Life pages. Added a page detailing the Working Tools as exemplified in Texas. Added a link on the Location page to access Yahoo's driving instructions utility. Added 1974 to the Grand Lodge Excerpts. Updated the Events page with plans for the next two Masonic years. Added a link on the Masonic Light page to the full text of The Moral Teachings of Freemasonry by J.S.M. Ward; and Conscience and the Craft by Jim Tresner.
26 April 1998 -- Finished adding the abstracts for Volume 3 of the Short Talk Bulletin. Added some additional Masonic information links. Added poetry to Masonic Life, Lodge and Brotherhood pages. Added additional paragraphs and brought the list of Past Masters up to date on the History Page. Noted that we had a server failure that lost about 30 hits off the counter. Added the May, 1998 Trestle Board.
5 April 1998 -- Added poems to Working Tools, Masonic Life and Seasons pages. Added a Masonic Light page link to The "Life of Robert W. Pinkerton," a marvelous man, Mason and Shriner. This website is a marvelous memorial created by his children. Added several paragraphs to the Lodge History.
21 Mar 1998 -- Made the hit counter digits color match the page color scheme. Added the April, 1998 Trestle Board. Added this month's reading to the reading list. Partially added Volume 3 (1925) to the Short Talk Bulletin Abstracts. Added the full text of "Sublime" (STB Vol. 3 No. 8). Added 1973 to the Excerpts from Grand Lodge Proceedings. Added a comprehensive set of text-based, intra-site links on every page in the site. Began placing Lodge History information on the web site. Added a Poetry of the Appendent Bodies page. Added some more Masonic links. Added other Poetry. Added the results of the "Best Masonic Books" poll conducted on the soc.org.freemasonry newsgroup. Added additional keywords to META data on all HTML files. Created a seed.htm file for use as a prototype for future pages on the site.
10 Mar 1998 -- Added some additional links. Added a hit counter. Added additional poetry to the Poetry pages. Added a Poems of the Masonic Life page. Added text links to main page that will allow web spiders to index the entire web site.
27 Feb 1998 -- Added the Christmas Pageant script used at the 1996 Lodge Christmas "Wives', Widows' and past Masters'" evening. Added a site map page. Updated the method of linking to URL-minder. The home page was getting up to 30 seconds access time at 14.4 kbps so I split the archive of past changes and "Administrative Items" sections off into a separate page. Added the guidelines I wrote last year for creating articles for the Trestle Board. Moved the external poetry links to the Light page. Added additional external poetry links to the light page. Reorganized and added additional poetry to the Poetry pages. Added the unfinished draft of a research paper for the Texas Lodge of Research regarding "Ancient Obligatory Penalties". Maybe some feedback will help me finish it.
22 Feb 1998 -- Added a new original poem, dedicated to Charlie Groves, one of Smithfield's beloved Past Masters. Added several new poems to the "Preservation Project Page". Cleaned up the links on the poetry page. Updated the books list to include the last couple of month's reading.
17 Feb 1998 -- Revised graphics to clean up the bit-mapped text in them. Modified some of the fonts on the pages. Added content to the poetry page. Added a link to the "World of Freemasonry". Fixed a bad link to the Philalethes Society. Fixed a bad link on the Grand Lodge Excerpts page. Added two more full-text Short Talk Bulletins. Added the March Trestle Board. Added content to events page.
14 Feb 1998 -- Added additional external links to the poetry page and the Masonic light page. Made the return links on the Short Talk Bulletin full-text pages point back to the exact table cells they were linked from. made the return links on the various Masonic Light pages point back to the exact point on the Light page. Added additional excerpts from the Grand Lodge Proceedings. Added additional links to the separate religious and esoteric links page.
8 Feb 1998 -- Shifted the home page to index.htm, making the complete address "www.fwst.net/np/smithfield455" and kept the smithfld.html and index.htm files as autoforwarding pages to the main page. Pointer to URLminder changed.
7 Feb 1998 -- Added the reviews for Short Talk Bulletin (STB) - volume 2 (1924). Checked every page and standardized the links back to the home page. Added the text of several STB numbers.
31 Jan 1998 -- Resized graphics for better results with smaller monitors. Added additional links. Added 'index.htm' page with auto point to index.htm. I will eventually use the index.htm file as it is the default for this provider. This will make 'www.fwst.net/np/smithfield455/' work as our complete address.
30 Jan 1998 -- Added more excerpts from G.L. Proceedings. Added more to the Poetry Page. Added to the list of Books. Made 'index.htm' the main page and 'smithfld.html' a duplicate. Modified the links accordingly.
23 Jan 1998 -- Added content of February, 1998 Trestle Board. Added much new content to Masonic Light page: a Poetry page, letter to new Master Masons, and a list of books.
20 Jan 1998 -- Added more content to the Extracts of the Grand Lodge Proceedings. Added a more detailed map to the location page. Added more white space in the links area.
15 Jan 1998 -- Additional links page installed, link to URLminder installed, added GL Proceedings extracts page.
13 Jan 1998 -- Content and layout tweaked.
11 Jan 1998 -- Initial Page established.

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