Washington state has some great Odd Fellows. I don't live there, or anywhere close, but if I could go meet up with some Odd Fellows in any given state that'd be on my top 5, based off of who I get to talk to and what I read on the 'net. I wouldn't ever be telling someone that they should be an Odd Fellow but I will say that I get a lot out of being a member, love learning about the history of the IOOF, and look forward to opportunities like this where I can both share my passion for helping make the world a better place, because that's what the IOOF is about, and also helping to better understand where we've come from.

After high school, if you decide to go to college, and remain interested in discovering more about H.F. Fulling and his involvement in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, you might be able to get some books from Indiana University though an inter-university loan program. There are several IOOF record books at that library and I'm very, very sure that there's more we can learn about H.F. Fulling from reading them. I live in a college town and as a resident I can request books like this from other libraries. Obviously I don't know if you can do this as well but it might be worth looking in to.

You might also find some nuggets in the old Odd Fellow magazines. For example, check this out. You'll see that a lodge named Hebron is mentioned, that's how I ended up coming upon it, but it's not the same Hebron lodge that H.F. Fuller belonged to. Hebron has significance in the Old Testament and the lessons of Odd Fellowship are strongly tied to the Bible ... but I digress. There are regional Odd Fellow newsletters &