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This is the newest installment of 2006 lodge events issues from lodges in the Carolinas.  For some lodges I have no information, so unless someone tells me what event patches their lodge has made this past year the update will be very short.

Consider this a not so subtle hint and request: If your lodge events issues are not yet on OAImages.com, please send the information and scans along to me.

I know of the following two event patches issued by Santee lodge in 2006. Continue Reading »

Thanks to the guys at ScoutHistory.net Cloth Talk #22 is now available for downloading either through iTunes or by direct download at http://www.scouthistory.net/blog/. Remember, you do not need to have iTunes installed in order to listen to Cloth Talk. They also have a dialup-friendly version available for those who do not have high speed internet connections.
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At the beginning of the year, I added a new banner to this site consisting of all 10th anniversary patches.   Patches commemorating lodge anniversaries have a long history, starting with the 25th anniversary issue from Unami (L1), intended to be worn as a neckerchief slide, pictured on the left.

If established as an authentic lodge issue, the patch currently listed as the Nentico 12 YX2, from 1942, apparently would be the first anniversary issue issued by a lodge other than Unami. Otherwise that honor would likely fall to the Chappegat 15 L1, a leather patch worn as neckerchief slide, issued for their 25th anniversary in 1948. Continue Reading »

On Cloth Talk #21, Chris Brightwell discussed how to upload images to the Scout History Wiki.   He mentioned that folks should not add any sort of additional text to the patch image.   I can understand the desire for a nice clean, uncorrupted, image on the Wiki.   Watermarks, especially, can be very annoying and distracting.   See Getty Images for an example of what I mean.

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Most publications have a style or writers’ guide for their writers and editors.   On a basic level it seeks to standardize spellings, punctuation and grammar.   In more extreme cases such guidelines seek to incite emotional responses or support a political position — suicide bombers versus homicide bombers, insurgents versus terrorists, pro-choice versus pro-abortion.

In recent years the Order of the Arrow, on a national level, has abandoned the use of lodge numbers.  Lodge numbers no longer appear on charters.   Lodges register at national events using their lodge name, council name and council number.   Announcers and newspaper writers at NOAC were very careful to not use historical lodge numbers.   It was as if a memo came down from heaven: Under no circumstances are the lodges’ numbers to be used. Continue Reading »

Greg Grimes sent me this scan of a new issue from Occoneechee lodge.

These flaps are earned by lodge brothers who give service at their lodge’s workdays in preparation for the 2007 SR-7B Conclave. The first of these were awarded just recently to those few brothers who attended two workdays. Continue Reading »

Courtesy of Jimmy Arthurs, here’s another North Carolina issue that was missed in the most recent Blue Book.   It’s not surprising this was omitted.

This patch was earned by lodge brothers in 2004 and 2005 who completed a lengthy set of requirements.  Only about 2 dozen were earned.  For those diehard collectors of this lodge’s patches, this will be one of the tougher modern issues to acquire. Continue Reading »

Tsoiotsi Tsogalii 70 stretches the line between an events patch and a lodge issue with this newest jacket patch.   I am undecided whether we should properly call this one J5 or eJ2007-1.

This 6″ jacket patch depicts Allowat Sakima in the style of a Cherokee “peace chief”.  It was produced with the specific intent of using the proceeds to fund the lodge’s LLD weekend.  Continue Reading »

Thanks to David York for bringing this patch to my attention.

Tali Taktaki 70, and then later Tsoiotsi Tsogalii 70, had a tradition of intermittently sponsoring Fifty Miler Treks during the week after Christmas.   The trek was in 1979 and the last one I know of was in 2003. Continue Reading »

Here’s a little entertainment for your winter morning.

At the beginning of the year I added a new banner to the site, on a rotating basis, for the site’s 10th anniversary. Like the original site banner, the patches in this 10th anniversary banner all have something in common

Now, just a few minutes ago I added a different banner on all the lodge pages. This one will only appear today.

Our of curiosity, can anyone figure out what the patches in the banner all have in common and why I put the banner there today?  If you’re one of the few I told about this banner, please don’t respond… give others a chance to figure it out first.   The answer can be found with a little bit of creative research.

Thanks to the guys at ScoutHistory.net Cloth Talk #21 is now available for downloading either through iTunes or by direct download at http://www.scouthistory.net/blog/. Remember, you do not need to have iTunes installed in order to listen to Cloth Talk.   They also have a dialup-friendly version available for those who do not have high speed internet connections.
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Sorry folks,  this is another non-patch related post.  I find this priceless.  Skip the rest of this post if you don’t want to read such things.

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