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When Scouting Isn’t Easy
You are not supposed to be reading this post! Instead of this post, you should be reading a long and thoroughly exposited post about why long-term thinking is important in a Scout Troop. However, after...
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The Scout’s Guide to Patrol Inspections
“In a well-run Troop camp one of the first things that ought to happen is that the Scouts report the night before with their kits packed ready for inspection.” – The Patrol Leaders’ Handbook (John...
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Searching for Heroes
The Influence of Heroes One of my first childhood heroes was a man named George Washington Carver. He was born into slavery in 1864. Despite having to grow up during the tremendously difficult...
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Best Online Resources for Learning Morse Code
Ham Radio and Scouting have had a long and solid relationship. Back in 2012, I wrote an article of the Top 10 Reasons You Should Get a Ham Radio License. I also wrote a couple of articles (here and...
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The Scout’s Guide to Naming Your Patrol
While working on an article that will be published this weekend on GreenBar Life, I found some really cool quotes from John Thruman, William Hillcourt, and others talking about the importance of the...
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The Art of Story-Telling
Once Upon a Campfire One of the first Scout camping trips that sticks out in mind was not noteworthy because of where we went or what we did. As a matter of fact, I can’t even remember where it was....
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Scouting For the Long Haul
Endurance When Baden-Powell wrote Scouting for Boys, he heavily emphasized that one of the attributes Scouts should strive for is endurance: A Scout saying is “Never say die till you’re dead”— and if...
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Scouting Has Odd Laws
When you’ve been in Scouting for a while, it’s easy to recite the Scout Law and not think twice about the way it is worded. When you examine it closer, you see that when Baden-Powell first drafted the...
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Traditional Scouting 101 – The Challenge of the Wilderness
[N.B. This is the third post in a series on this blog called “Traditional Scouting 101”. It builds logically on the previous articles. If you haven’t read them yet, you can do so here: Part 1, Part 2....
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How Scouting was Saved in ’79
There is a period in the history of the Boy Scouts of America that not many people like to talk about. Some of you may have heard the story before; some of you may have lived through it. I think it is...
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Traditional Scouting 101 – Introduction to the Patrol System
“What in the world is this ‘Patrol System’?” When I first seriously started studying Scouting and its history, I kept running across references to something called the “Patrol Method” or “Patrol...
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“Over the Top”
Published in Boys’ Life July, 1918 “ Private Edward J. Kelly, One Hundred and Sixty-fifth United States Infantry, went over the top one night in a raid, and the end of his story was written in the...
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My Last Article?
Okay, I admit it: the title of this article is a little bit misleading. This isn’t actually my last article. The title isn’t a description of the article. It’s a challenge. Here is the premise that I...
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12 Ways to Live Like a Scout Today
Question: How can I take the Scouting Oath and Law more seriously in my day-to-day life? An oath is a very solemn thing. It isn’t a motto or positive incantation. It is a verbal commitment on one’s...
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