So What’s Up With the Blue Book?

Periodically a question is asked on Patch-L on the status of the Blue Book.  Without going into long detail, the facts of which I am not totally privy to, there has not been an issue available since the 2006 NOAC.

In a post speculating on the total number of issues for the 2009 NOAC ^[2], Roy More states:

We’ve taken over the management and publication of the OA Blue Boo ^[3]k so we’re heading home from pre-NOAC to see that the system can handle all of these new additions. What an undertaking.

If you follow the link,  you find yourself here:

^[3]There are several posts, but no comments yet.

A few tidbits from the posts:

The site for The Blue Book is, we think logically, OABlueBook.com. The site is very much “under development” but some of the things we will now be able to do:
– Anyone will be able to give submissions for new issues and varieties.
– Users will be able to add comments about issues including historical information such as number made, when issued, any restrictions, etc.
– More easily include new areas such as lodge totem pins or other memorabilia.

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Should there be an overhaul of the issues in Blue Book as stated in the last, 6th, edition?

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How do we handle lodges that do not have a number?

Go check it out and leave Ray your thoughts.

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A man’s feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

George Santayana ^[4]
US (Spanish-born) philosopher (1863 – 1952)

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