2020-01-16 01:44
by Ray Ezell, Assistant Southern Region-Area 7 Commissioner In late 2019, the Board of the Stonewall Jackson Area Council (SJAC) chose to abandon the name of their council that had been a po… Read More
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Researching and Preserving the History of Scouting in Orange County, Virginia and Surroundings Since 1910
2019-12-27 20:58
by Ray Ezell, Assistant Southern Region-Area 7 Commissioner It’s never an easy thing to see a loved one die prematurely, let alone in an accident. It is especially hard when the victim… Read More
2019-11-17 00:51
by Ray Ezell, Asst Southern Region-Area 7 Commissioner Probably one of the most unique acts of patriotic service attempted by Boy Scouts in Virginia during World War I was the relocation of… Read More
2019-09-09 22:45
by Ray Ezell, Assistant Southern Region-Area 7 Commissioner During the United States’ involvement in the Great War (World War I) from 1917-1918, Boy Scouts fulfilled a variety of vital… Read More
2019-07-15 01:24
by Ray Ezell, Assistant Southern Region-Area 7 Commissioner Over the past few months I’ve posted essays about regional Scouting history and have gotten away from historical accounts of… Read More
2019-06-20 21:16
Boy Scout Camp Shenandoah, in it’s most recent iteration (and location since 1950), presently consists of 456 acres near Swoope in Augusta County on the eastern slopes of Virginia&rsqu&hell…Read More
2019-05-21 02:49
Beginning in February 1927, Charles E. Wood, Special Deputy Regional Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), along with the Charlottesville Rotary Club led the effort to establis… Read More
2019-05-01 03:29
Was the Scoutmaster of the first Boy Scout Troop organized in Staunton, Va. in 1911 a woman? … More “Untiring to Make the Scout Movement in Staunton Successful”… Wa… Read More
2019-03-30 19:19
Author’s Note: I’d like to especially acknowledge and thank Mr. James (Bruce) Monroe III who gave a thoughtful presentation of his Scouting days in Boy Scout Troop No. 111 at the… Read More
2019-03-04 01:55
AUTHOR’S NOTE: A version of this blog post was originally published in two parts in 2018 on the Facebook page of the same name that I administer. It is appropriate to combine those pos… Read More
2019-01-25 22:47
I have been waiting a while to finish this blog post, and now it’s completed. Everyone enjoy…. The second (and maybe most renown) Scoutmaster of Orange Troop No. 1 was Rev. Fran… Read More
2018-12-31 16:57
The September 1998 issue of Scouting magazine reports that from the early years of Scouting educators took an interest in the Scouting movement, seeing it as a useful adjunct to classroom ed… Read More
2018-12-23 05:27
In 1913, 1914, and 1915, encampments of Boy Scouts from across the Commonwealth were held in conjunction with the University of Virginia (UVa) Summer School Scoutmaster training course in Ch… Read More
2018-12-14 02:43
With the inauguration of this new blog documenting the history of Scouting in and around Orange County, I have been undecided as to the topic of my first substantive post. After several days… Read More
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