ELLETTSVILLE — It’s been decades since members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows converged for meetings in the downtown Ellettsville building that was home to Lodge 298 dating back to the 1880s.

Past Grand Master Jim Bott Chaplin Don Butler with the Odd Fellow Bible Past Odd Fellows Grand Master Jim Bott stands next to the commemorative axe he recieved in 2018. In the Odd Fellows, the axe is ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Quiet, but not sad, is how Meg Meltz describes the place. That’s the 2,800-square-foot, nondescript Independent ...

A few weeks back, someone found a skeleton in a Mt. Healthy garage, resulting in flurry of hypothesizing until an investigation revealed the bones were a leftover prop from an erstwhile Odd Fellows ...

Built in the aftermath of the 1906 earthquake, it houses human skeletons.

When driving along N. Main Street, you might see the letters “IOOF” displayed on a bright, neon sign above the locally owned Snake River Fly store. These letters stand for The Independent Order of Odd ...

There are many community-service organizations that call Davis home. But how many can say they’ve been around for more than 150 years and boast nearly 400 members? One can for certain — the Davis Odd ...

CEDAR FALLS — Jason Mehmen leads the way up a dark, narrow enclosed staircase to the second floor of the historic Odd Fellows Lodge at 402 W. Second St., across the street from Overman Park. He snaps ...

DOVER — In 1999, the Odd Fellows of Dover donated $5,000 to the local American Legion baseball team. At that time, Larry Gadbois, an Army veteran, was the manager of the team. Inspired by the ...