The other interesting thing to mention was that on the debate about the walking FC lecture, the Chairman of the Committee of Work completely got his leg cut out under him. He came up and spoke against it, and later one of his committee members came up and gave statistics on how many places it is done, and essentially supported it.
Texas is the first state I've ever seen that completely deleted the dewdrop lecture and moved the senior deacon work to the east. The first time I saw a Texas second degree I sat there in astonishment at having all of the events leading to the middle chamber deleted. Then a bit over half of the lectures that are delivered by the senior deacon on the floor got delivered in the east in place of the dewdrop lecture. Pillars, supports, orders of architecture, liberal arts and sciences while on the stairs then the origin of the pass in the south. In Texas they get listed not each getting its own individual explanation. The first time I went through the line this separated the guys working the lower chairs on whether they would be able to handle the east. Present all that to a live candidate in a second degree and you were going to be able to handle anything else in the ritual.
Do a lot of states have the senior deacon not deliver a couple of lectures from the floor during the second degree? I have no idea if it's only Texas that dropped so much from the second degree.
Most states have the staircase lectures on the staircase and at the south gate. California calls it the middle chamber lecture because it's presented while getting to the middle chamber so the last words of it are saying that's where we've arrived. It's the usual random variation in terminology.
I don't know of a US that calls the lecture presented from the east in the middle chamber the dewdrop lecture. I learned that term on-line back in the days of Usenet.