Over in Ireland in the attic I have dozens of boxes filled with Masonic regalia and ephemera, every time I'm there I plan on going through it all but never do!
My granfer on my dad's side was constantly telling me things about the Masons when I was little, teaching me funny hand symbols, handshakes and showing my little blue Masonic books. I remember one of these books had a wonderful engraving of Noah's Ark.
Many modern Freemasons seem to have very little interest in the deeper side of their history. One of the few things I've always been interested in is the pillars, Boaz (strength) and Jachin (Jehovah establishes) and the theory that they symbolically correspond to the Pillars of Enoch. Which some people think were excavated by Solomon's Masons during the construction of his Temple. Didn't Josephus state that one of the Pillars still existed in his day?
I'm also interested in the Rite of Memphis-Misraim. Interesting stuff!