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Joseph Buchanan reminded us on arrow-l that twenty years ago this past week, October 25, 1986, Carroll A. Edson passed away.   He is often the forgotten Founder of the Order of the Arrow, being relegated to “co-founder” status behind the much more gregarious E. Urner Goodman.    Regardless, his contributions to the Order and Scouting were great. 

Joseph shared with us a 1986 article from the Syracuse Post-Standard, which contained several interesting details about Edson’s life that I am sure are not commonly known to Arrowmen.   The text of the article follows:

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Two great North Carolina OA pieces recently sold on eBay. These sales were notable for the prices paid as well as the pieces sold. Observant folks will also notice a few odd things about the sale…

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My friend, Rusty Reeves, posted this on his blog.   Even though it’s long and has nothing to do with patches, it bears repeating here.   After all, one of the BSA’s goals is participatory citizenship.

A presidential election is too important for there to be no paper record of the votes.  Let the broadcast media wait a few days!  There’s no need to call the election at 9:30pm Eastern time on election night.   Alas, I expect this to die.

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An earlier post mentioned a Gimogash patch that was up for sale on eBay.  

The item closed on 14 October with a top bid of $11,210.   Since the reserve was not met,  the lot was not sold.

Thanks to the guys at ScoutHistory.net Cloth Talk #15 is now available for downloading either through iTunes or direct download.  

In this episode:

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My apologies for this late announcement.  Cloth Talk #14 is now online.

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Introducting… Jake Topkis. 

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Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
Brown paper packages tied up with strings
These are a few of my favorite things…

from “The Sound of Music” by Rodgers and Hammerstein

I wanted to take a few minutes to share with folks what I think are a few of my favorite flaps.� � In an effort to cover more of the history of patches, I picked three from different eras: a� classic from the 1960s, one from the early 1970s showing the development of highly colorful patches, and a third that first appeared about 7 years ago.

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I thought this was a very good and timely quote, worth sharing here.

“I don’t believe in a fate that will fall upon us no matter what we do; I do believe in a fate that will fall upon us if we do nothing.”

Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States

Not all patch designs are original.� � Sometimes a lodge will base a patch design on an earlier issued patch.� While this is commonly done within a lodge, it should be no secret that some lodges are inspired by the work of other lodges.

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I hope you all like the new page layout… It took me most of Wednesday night to sucessfully modify a downloaded two column layout into what you see. Stylesheets are fun, but get rather annoying when they’re complicated and written by someone else!

There’s still a few things to tweak.  At least one of them is a minor annoyance that probably won’t really be noticed by anyone other than me… and may remain unchanged.   The others are just cosmetic items. 

Sometimes good comes from tragedy; in this case an outporing of charity. I read this story early this morning:
Gifts to Grieving Amish Community Soar

In today’s society, the second paragraph will be found the most remarkable by those unfamiliar with the Amish culture and mindset:

The money is expected to go toward short- and long-term medical bills, transportation costs, counseling and other needs. At the request of Amish leaders, a fund has also been set up for the gunman’s family.

To paraphrase some of my college math professors, I’ll leave it as an exercise to the reader to see the Scouting connection here.