Old Tyler's Talks

"The Old Tyler", written by Carl H. Claudy, first appeared in print in August, 1921 when the first of four hundred and fourteen "Old Tyler Talks" were printed in the Fellowship Forum, a fraternal newspaper published in Washington, D.C.

In 1925 the publisher asked the author to select a few of the best of the talks and thirty-one were accordingly made into a little volume, copyrighted that year. The book, which sold for a dollar, ran into two editions of five thousand copies each.  By the time they were all sold the Fellowship Forum ran head on into the depression and disappeared and with it the Old Tyler.

Thanks to the beauty of the internet, the Old Tyler sits again outside the lodge door.  Enjoy!