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Eswau Huppeday Week” continues here at OAImages.

Here’s a tough question for those who try to classify Order of the Arrow patches. If a council produces, awards and sells a councilstrip without any direct involvement from the council’s lodge, but includes the lodge number in the design, should this be listed in Blue Book and this site with the lodge’s issues?

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Eswau Huppeday lodge adopted a Batman theme for their current program year.   The theme figures prominently on their lodge event patches as well as the flap issued for this year’s Dixie Fellowship.   In keeping with this theme, six different neckechiefs were made for the Dixie Fellowship.   Thanks to Jimmy Arthurs and David Cody for tipping me off about these.

There is some question whether these items should be listed in Blue Book.   None of the neckerchiefs have anything on them indicating they are from Eswau Huppeday lodge, the Order of the Arrow, or even the BSA.  They are handmade, cut from cloth bought in a store and then hemmed.   Theoretically, if one could find the same cloth and knew the size of the neckerchiefs more of these could easily be made.   I am told all six were made in low quantities, ranging from about 10 to 30 each.

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Jimmy Arthurs sent me images last night of a bunch of recent activities patches from Eswau Huppeday.   Among them were the 2007 activites patches from this lodge.  Thanks.

The lodge issued the customary participant and staff patch from the Carolinas Indian Seminar as well as patches for their Spring Fellowship, Fall Fellowship and Winter Banquet.

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A friend of mine was recently joking with me about this series of posts.   He wanted to know when I would get to Colorado or Wyoming.   I think he may have been a bit surprised when I told him I was already working up a post for Colorado!

This is the eleventh in an ongoing series of posts about state shaped patches. Previous entries have covered state shaped patches from Alabama, Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, Kentucky, Montana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. 

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This is the tenth in an ongoing series of posts about state shaped patches. Previous entries have covered state shaped patches from Alabama, Connecticut, Florida, Kentucky, Montana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.

Now I turn my attentions to the desert southwest.   The lodges of Arizona have had some beautiful and interesting patches thorughout the years.   Papago lodge is thought to be the originator of what collectors now refer to as the two-piece set: a pocket flap with a matching pocket patch, usually with a similar theme and sometimes with a continuous design across the two patches.   However it appears that only one lodge has issued patches based upon the shape of the state of Arizona.

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Hmmm… I wonder if Occoneechee council and UNC can bring back the Scout ushers and issue some patches.   Then I could talk about patches and the Tarheels at the same time.

“A real character win.”

It wasn’t very pretty. UNC prevailed over BYU tonight in the final of the Las Vegas Invitational. The game was much closer than the score would seem to indicate.

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It was a late night for the Tarheels last night as they took on Old Dominion in Las Vegas and won.

The first half had Carolina fans on the edge of their seats.   Carolina poured it on strong in the second half and never looked back.

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“I do hereby promise on my honor as a Scout that I will always and faithfully observe and preserve the traditions of the Order of the Arrow, W…”

Oops.

Bob Black recently sent me images of the 2007 activity patches from Nakona 150. The intention of the lodge was for three of the patches to bear the words Brotherhood, Cheerfulness and Service. The other three were to bear Lenape words that should be familiar to Order of the Arrow brothers. However, somewhere along the way someone made two rather embarrassing mistakes.

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Back in September I wrote about some issues I was having pulling data.

The software I use to pull eBay data, Auction Intelligence (AI), was having problems dealing with a new eBay “feature” and not pulling all the data it was supposed to be.  A temporary fix was put in place.  After a while I thought this was fixed.  The amount of search data being pulled was way down but I was putting the blame for that on several big sellers no longer being active on eBay combined with the usual seasonal fluctuation as we moved in Fall.   It turns out I was mistaken.

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I was pleasantly surprised that Carolina just barely kept their number one ranking this week.

South Carolina State got a good lesson in basketball tonight.   It was another game devoid of any serious drama beyond when the Tarheels would break the century mark.  

“CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina has shown what it can do here against an overmatched opponent. The top-ranked Tar Heels will soon learn how they’ll respond when they leave their home state.

Tyler Hansbrough scored 26 points and Wayne Ellington added 19 to help North Carolina beat South Carolina State 110-64 Tuesday night, giving the Tar Heels another easy win before starting an extended road swing that will keep them away for nearly a month… ”

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duWayne Amen sent me the follow message about an upcoming Trade-o-Ree.

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The 14^th annual ‘Old Hickory’ Trade-O-Ree is coming up on December 22, 2007 from 9:00 AM till 3:00 PM at Summit School in Winston-Salem.This year’s event will be held in the classroom building (teaching/learning center) where we use to be located because our gym is surrounded by construction.

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This is the ninth in an ongoing series of posts about state shaped patches. Previous entries have covered state shaped patches from Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Montana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.

As we approach the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, the egg nog drinking season, I thought I would turn my attention to looking for patches in the shape of the Nutmeg State. 

I could only find one patch shaped like Connecticut.   This is the J1 from Owaneco 313.  The lodge’s territory in the southeastern portion of the state is outlined in blue. 

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