Though certainly not a requirement for earning the Eagle Scout Award, an Eagle Scout Service Project video can be icing on the cake, celebrating and commemorating a boy’s hard work and planning. And with HD
Boy Scout log cabins, I’ve seen before. But a Scout cabin built inside a church? That’s got to be one of a kind. Since its construction in February 1928, a Scout-built log cabin in the basement of the Lafayette
When two bombs went off at the Boston Marathon yesterday, Bruce and Bonnie Showstack were standing where they have for the past decade of races — two blocks from the finish line. The Showstacks, both
Updated | 1:40 p.m. I just got off the phone with Chuck Eaton, Scout Executive at Boston Minuteman Council, about yesterday’s tragedy at the Boston Marathon. He said that Council Commissioner Bruce Showstack and his
Can’t swim the 100-meter butterfly in less than 50 seconds? That’s OK — nobody but Michael Phelps can. But I did just hear about a swimming record you and your Scouts do have a chance to
There’s more to a Scout trailer than meets the eye. Sure, a troop trailer with an eye-catching paint job or wrap — like the ones I featured in this post — can help recruit new Scouts
I interrupt my regular blog programming for this important Wood Badge Wednesdays announcement… I’m staffing Wood Badge this summer at Philmont Scout Ranch, and there’s a spot on our course for you and your Scouting
Maybe you’ll walk in the footsteps of the Wright Brothers in Ohio, hike from scene to scene in an outdoor production of Snow White in Boulder, or bike through redwoods in California. Wherever you are,
For anyone who’s seen a Boy Scout patrol return from grocery shopping with six family size bags of sour-cream-and-onion potato chips. For anyone who has set out snacks for a Cub Scout den and seen
Like The Hulk, you don’t wanna see Scouts when they get angry. But it’s a natural human emotion, so it’s bound to happen in your troop. When it does, do you know how to respond?