1950 Area 3A Fellowship Pow-Wow
Posted in Area 3-A, Area 3-C, Area 3-D, Area 3-E, Nentico 12, Section Conclave Patches by Dave Scocca on August 30th, 2008 at 8:00 am 
1950 Area 3A Slide
In 1950 Nentico Lodge #12 hosted the lodges of eastern Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia for the Area 3A Fellowship Pow-Wow on April 29-30 at the two-year-old Broad Creek Scout Camps in Whiteford, Maryland. The event featured the first known piece of Area 3A memorabilia, a burned wooden slice neckerchief slide saying “Broad Creek” and “WWW”.
Literally hundreds of different wooden “slice” neckerchief slides were issued at Broad Creek between 1950 and the mid-1970s. The design of the 1950 3A slide was also used for a camp slide that year–the camp slide has “BSA” where the 3A slide has “WWW”–and continued to be used for dated slides each summer through 1969. The camp ranger in 1950 is credited with having made the original burned slides.
The 1950 3A slide is not, strictly speaking, the rarest of the Broad Creek “slice” slides; in the late 1960s and early 1970s, unique slides were designed and made for individual staff members. However, the 3A slide is the most highly sought-after of the Broad Creek slides, and the 1950 slide is among the rarest of the 3A meeting items.
When Nentico hosted the 1972 3A conference, the front cover of the booklet featured small reproductions of the booklets from earlier area conferences at Broad Creek. The simple typewritten cover of the 1950 3A booklet described the event as the “Fellowship Pow-Wow”.
In 1950, Area 3A consisted of the same twenty-five lodges as it had in 1949.
(Date source: Blue Heron Lodge History)
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