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Announcing my first-ever Golden Eagle Awards for best Eagle project videos

April 17, 2013 9

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

Closing the doors on one of the country’s most unusual Scout meeting spots

April 17, 2013 13

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

Two blocks from blasts, ‘adrenaline kicked in’ for Boston Scouters

April 16, 2013 12

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

Boston Executive: Scouts and Scouters who volunteered at marathon are safe

April 16, 2013 4

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

Here’s one swimming record you could actually break

April 15, 2013 15

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

What’s inside counts: Send me interior photos or plans of your troop trailer

April 12, 2013 31

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

Shameless plug: Join me at Wood Badge this summer at Philmont

April 10, 2013 20

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

Find your path: Track down a National Trails Day event near you

April 9, 2013 3

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,

Take the pledge: Help Scouts drink right, move more, and snack smart

April 8, 2013 3

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

Learn to manage a Scout’s anger in this month’s ScoutCast

April 5, 2013 1

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?