Boy Scout Links

Main BSA Links

• BSA Official Homepage: www.scouting.org
  • National Eagle Scout Association (NESA): www.nesa.org
  • National Scouting Museum: www.bsamuseum.org
  • Venturing Program www.scouting.org/venturing
  • BSA Commissioners site: www.scouting.org/commissioners
  • BSA Supply: www.scoutstuff.org
  • BSA Online Learning Center: olc.scouting.org
  • Guide to Safe Scouting: www.scouting.org/pubs/gss/index.html
  • Language of Scouting: www.scouting.org/identity/los
    [a great start--the search engine is primitive and the dictionary scope is limited to "the terms and style associated specifically with Scouting...  and grammar, spelling, and style norms used by the Custom Communication Division at the national office of the Boy Scouts of America."]
• World Scouting:
  • www.scout.org
  • www.scout.org/europe/
  • See historical facts
• Resources:
  • ScoutingBSA www.scoutingbsa.org/
  • US Scouting Service Project http://www.usscouts.org/
  • Computer Merit Badge http://usscouts.org/mb/mb036.html
  • The Mac Scouter http://www.macscouter.com/
  • The Scouter's Journal Home Page http://www.scouter.com/
  • Welcome to EagleScout.Org! www.eaglescout.org
• Memorabilia:
  • www.streamwood.net
  • www.boyscoutstore.com
  • www.scoutingmuseum.org -- Lawrence L. Lee Scouting Museum & Max I. Silber Scouting Library
  • Nice overview of Scout Handbooks: www.troop97.net/bshb1.htm
  • A BSA History Index with links to other sites: members.aol.com/randywoo/bsahis/general.htm
• www.trails-end.com BSA popcorn 1-800-828-5211, Van Buren, Indiana

New "Camping Grounds"...

• Mason Dixon Council http://www.mason-dixon-bsa.org
  • Pack 36 - Halfway
  • Troop 17 - Williamsport
• See Computer Merit Badge
• Gunueukitschik #317 (OA Mason-Dixon Council) www.mason-dixon-bsa.org/oa/index.html
• Camp Sinoquipe http://www.mason-dixon-bsa.org/camping/summercamp/index.html

I do not have the
2nd ed, but I do have this reprint of the 1st ed:

 

I used the 7th ed.
as a Scout, and have acquired 3rd-11th eds

.

Old "Camping Grounds"...

• Baltimore Area Council, BSA -- http://www.baltimorebsa.org/
  • Troop/Pack 112 -- http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/5672/index.html
• Nentico Lodge No. 12
  • Official Page -- http://www.intandem.com/nentico12/
  • Patches -- http://www.intandem.com/nentico12/Patches.html
  • Section -- http://www.intandem.com/SectionNE4C/

• Broad Creek Memorial Scout Reservation -- http://www.intandem.com/BCMSR
  • Did a couple summer camps there
  • Usually did a winter camp there in a cabin [remember thick ice forming on the inside of the windows]
  • Also went there for training [e.g., Pine Tree]
• Rodney Scout Reservation -- camping.delmarvacouncil.org/Rodney.htm
  • Camp Ranger had a fabulous patch and necherchief slide collection, including a glass shadowbox coffee table display
  • I also saw my first albino deer at this camp (all white with a brown patch on the rump)
• Lil-Aaron Strauss Scout Reservation -- no longer owned by the BSA
  • Strauss was more primitive than Broad Creek -- which meant less crowded and more remote -- so we like it better [since we went to Broad Creek at other times]
    • Depending on where in the camp your troop stayed, the swimming area was a very long hike
    • The swimming "hole" was just a widening and deepening of Sidling Creek. One side was gently sloped (the "beach"), but the other side was a rock face. But it was big and deep enough for the Lifesaving Merit Badge Counselor to try to drown us as we tried to "rescue" him -- his shoulders were so broad it took both arms to hold him in cross-chest carry! He made us work for it!
    • Typically, on Friday of summer camp, we would canoe all day down the Potomac, and afterward porting the canoes up the hill (not a fun task), we were rewarded with a steak dinner at the lodge -- it was great!
    • One year, after a hurricane, the Potomac was unsafe, but Sidling Creek had swollen enough to canoe for the more experienced Senior Scouts
  • Another great camp lost
    • Someone else realized that "our camp" could be used to make a few good men...
    • It was sold to Army and Lil Aaron Strauss Military Reservation, home of OCS
    • Later renamed to BG Thomas B. Baker TS
• Mortimer L. Schiff Scout Reservation
  • Operated by the BSA from 1932 - 1979
    • National Training Center
    • Johnston Historical Museum
    • Ellsworth H. Augustus International Scout House
    • The location of the first Wood Badge courses held in the United States
    • From this location the famous "Green Bar" Bill Hillcourt, Scoutmaster of the Mendham Troop, and others worked on the Boy Scout Handbooks, Boys Life Magazine, and numerous field manuals and nature guides
    • Norman Rockwell used the Schiff Reservation as the setting for some of his famous paintings and many were on permanent display for a period of time
    • Dan Beard Cabin, named after the first National Scout Commissioner, was originally part of a Boy Scouts' Service Camp that was constructed for the 1939-40 New York World's Fair.
    • The grave of Green Bar Bill
  • This land is no longer owned by ; it . When the BSA moved national headquarters to Texas, they had to sell the property because of high taxes!
    • After years of neglect...
    • Today over 310 acres of the original 500 acres of the camp are used by the Schiff Nature Preserve: www.schiffnaturepreserve.org
    • The remainder of the property is now being developed. Schiff Hall is currently being being restored and converted to a residence
  •  www.schiffscoutreservation.com
  • The "new Schiff" www.trcbsa.org/Schiff - The original Schiff Scout Reservation in Mendham N.J. was named in Mortimer L. Schiff's honor. Mortimer L. Schiff was a member of the Council Executive Board and involved in the purchase of the camp property. He then later served as President of the Boy Scouts of America. After the original Schiff Scout Reservation was closed, Camp Wauwepex was (re)named in honor of his son, John M. Schiff. The "new Schiff" recently adopted the original Schiff Scout Reservation Logo for it's patch, mug and hat pin design.