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Originally Posted by Ashlar521
Some of it goes back to the days before A/C . It was just too hot to meet in July and August.
And I take it that some GL/Lodges still keep it going because this is when families go on vacations and other summer events .
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Nope. I don't buy either of those. That might be an excuse for schools to let out (too hot to concentrate on lessons, plus the distraction of good weather to play in), but Lodges generally met in the cooler evenings. And it's not as if staying away from Lodge meant they could stay someplace cooler. No one had home air conditioning, either. When it first came out, the Lodges may well have had it before private homes anyway. Between winter weather, spring planting, and fall harvest, summer was probably the best time to meet in agrarian communities.
As for vacations, who takes two month vacations? Two weeks at most, and those staggered through the summer. So just because a few Brethren might be gone on any particular date, that doesn't mean that the Lodge couldn't get together a quorum. Besides, that would be when you'd want the Lodge open to welcome visiting Brethren who were vacation in your own area from somewhere else!
No, there must still be something else, and I still can't see what.