and her son crawling into a giant blue sock on Christmas morning

where the neighbors had accents thicker than a North Sea fog

for anyone who sketches or makes notes

Ted Stewart

A delightfully entertaining story of family and culture from acclaimed author Julia Alvarez

The Craft: How the Freemasons Made the Modern World Art Encyclopedias and her son crawling intoInsiders call it 'the Craft'. To the rest of us, Freemasonry is mysterious and suspect. Yet its story is peopled by some of the most distinguished men of the last three centuries: Winston Churchill and Walt Disney; Wolfgang Mozart and Shaquille O'Neal; Benjamin Franklin and Buzz Aldrin; Rudyard Kipling and 'Buffalo Bill' Cody; Duke Ellington and the Duke of Wellington. Founded in London in 1717 as a set of character forming ideals and a way of binding