The Freemason Academy Mentors
Founder of the Freemason Academy
Author of over 50 Masonic Articles and Papers Including: “The God Conspiracy”, “History of Freemasonry: The Origins”, and “The Forgotten Freemasons” P.M. Paradise Valley Silver Trowel # 29 Senior Deacon Aztlan #1 32° K.C.C.H Scottish Rite Masonic Brotherhood of the Blue Forget-Me-Not Scottish Rite Research Society Scientia Coronati Research Lodge Fellow Philalethes Society
Karen Kidd is an author who lives in Oregon. She was initiated in August 2006 into a Washington Lodge that works under the Honorable Order of American Co-Masonry, the American Federation of Human Rights, which is based in Larkspur, CO. Kidd also is a member of the Honorable Order’s Lodge of Research, for which she has written several architectures/research papers and more are in the works.
In 2007. she won the World Award in Internet Lodge No 9659's Short Paper's competition. Internet Lodge is a Lodge in Manchester England that works under the United Grand Lodge of England. It's biannual short papers competition attracts entrants the world over. Kidd was the first Co-Mason and the first woman Freemason to win such an award in a contest sponsored by a Lodge under the UGLE. In 2009, Kidd’s first book, “Haunted Chambers: the Lives of Early Women Freemasons” was released by Cornerstone Book Publishers in New Orleans, LA. She also authored the forward in the soon-to-be published, also by Cornerstone, rerelease of “The Biography of Mrs. Catherine Babington and How She Became a Blue Lodge Masons”.
Kidd presently is working on several projects, including the history of American Co-Masonry.
She started writing when she was a young girl and sold early works of short fiction while she was in college. She earned a degree in Journalism from Marshall University in Huntington, WV, and was a reporter for about eight years at several small southern newspapers. She then changed careers and entered the information technology field, writing occasional articles for technical journals.
She lives in Silverton, OR
Milo Dailey is a longtime journalist who has filed articles and photos from North and South America, Europe and Asia on subjects including economics, arts, agriculture, politics, sports, sales and marketing.
As at least a third generation Freemason, his research specialty led him beyond his father’s interest in philosophy and into the historic side of the Craft, especially on the Northern Plains of the U.S.
He is past master of the South Dakota Lodge of Masonic Research, past master of the Frontier Army Lodge of Masonic Research, and currently serves as chair of the public relations committee of the Grand lodge of South Dakota. Along with more traditional study, he has performed as a living historian re-enacting military and civilian life in the 1860s-90s U.S. frontier era.
He was commissioned to write and direct a play on the formation of the Dakota Territory Grand Lodge performed at the University of South Dakota for the South Dakota Grand Lodge.
He is a winner of the Philalethes Society’s literary award and has had material printed in other Masonic publications in the U.S. and the U.K.
Dailey’s personal interests include music and musical performance, combat arts from modern fencing to Asian unarmed combat, and always history. He has served on boards for Ft. Phil Kearny in Wyoming and the Tri-State Museum in Belle Fourche, S.D.