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June 22nd, 2010
Second Jamboree Trade-O-Ree Announced
I had previously passed along an announcement from Roger Ward of a Trade-O-Ree to be held during this Summer's BSA National Jamboree. Richard Shields has also asked me to share information about another Trade-O-Ree that will be held near the Fort A.P. Hill.
2010 NATIONAL JAMBOREE TRADE-O-REE
Sponsored by The Society of Scout Memorabilia Dealers
Fri. July 23rd Sun. Aug 1st
Fri. 7/23 3pm to 1am; Sat. 7/24 noon to 1am;
Mon-Thur 7/25-7/29 Noon to 11pm
Fri. 7/30--Sat. 7/31 noon to 1am; Sun Aug. 1st noon to 5pm
Buses Welcome Plenty of Free Parking
Buy, Sale and Trade
All kinds of Boy Scout Memorabilia
Eagles Lodge
21 Cool Springs Rd. Fredericksburg, VA
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June 16th, 2010
Jamboree Trade-O-Ree Announced
Roger Ward recently sent me information for a trade-o-ree (TOR) to be held near this Summer's BSA National Jamboree. I gladly pass this along here.
2010 Jamboree 100th Ann BSA Patch Show At
The Ramada Inn Fredericksburg South,VA
Siesta Beach Trading Company presents the
2010 Jamboree 100th Ann BSA Patch Show
Friday July 23rd to Tuesday August 3rd, 2010
12 Day Show From Friday To Tuesday
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June 15th, 2010
Just Whose Centennial Is It?
Many lodges and councils are issuing patches this year for the BSA's centennial. I even recently started to build a page on this site for these issues. However this isn't the only significant Scouting centennial that will occur within the next few years. Gap Danish recently sent me an image of a new jacket patch from Nachamawat 275 (Penn's Woods Council, PA) that I believe may be the first OA lodge or chapter issue for the Order of the Arrow's centennial in 2015!
The patch's design pays tribute to the history of the OA in this lodge's area. It includes the totems of Nachamawat's predecessor lodges -- Hopocan 275, Wopsononock 347, and Amadahi 441 -- as well as the current lodge totem and that of Unami 1. It also includes three different National OA logos rendered as smoke.
It will probably be some time until OA centennial issues start appearing in earnest. When they do, a page will be added to this site for them.
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June 13th, 2010
Tschipey Achtu Issues First Flap
I recently announced on this blog the formation of Tschipey Achtu lodge. At that time I had no news about patches. Mike Conkey recently acquired the newly issued first flap from this lodge and thanks to him for providing this image.
Notice that the new flap bears no lodge number. In that earlier blog entry I reported that the lodge's web page on the council's website refers to this as Tschipey Achtu Lodge #397, even though lodge numbers are no longer assigned on a national basis. There has been some discussion about this.
At this time I have no further details about the patch. This lodge's issues will be shown on the Tschipey Achtu lodge page of this site.
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May 6th, 2010
National OA Issues for BSA Centennial
The National Order of the Arrow is selling several items of merchandise in their online trading post for the BSA centennial. These items include a flap (conveniently sold either singly, or in three, 10 or 20 patch bundles), neckerchief, neckerchief slide, cap and hat pin.
The single flap is sold enclosed in a special portfolio and includes a message from the 2010 National Chief and Vice Chief. It is clearly states this flap is not to be worn on the uniform.
Upon trying to place an order, a shopper is advised that, "Any orders containing BSA 100 Anniversary products will not be shipped until June 15th, 2010."
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March 28th, 2010
Made In China
Check out this recent post on Roy More's blog:
http://thescoutpatchauction.com/blogsite/2010/03/23/this-is-wrong
I am not a supporter of Big Labor and learn very much to the political and fiscal right however I agree with Roy that there is something inherently wrong with this.
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Archive for December, 2008
1955 Dixie Fellowship
The fourth Dixie Fellowship, the 1955 Area 6-B Fellowship, was held in 1955 at Camp Coker. Santee 116 was the host lodge. Following the tradition started in 1953, the Confederate Battle Flag figured prominently in this patch’s design.
The patch design seems to imply that this section consisted of all of South Carolina, which was not true. It included three lodges in western North Carolina and only three of South Carolina’s five lodges.
Thanks to Jason Spangler (www.santeeswapper.com) for supplying the images for the Area Z and Dixie Fellowship patches used on this blog.
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1954 Dixie Fellowship
The third Dixie Fellowship, the 1954 Area 6-B Fellowship, was held in 1954 at Camp Dick Henning. Itibapishe Iti Hollo 188, affiliated with the Central North Carolina Council, was the host lodge.
Following the tradition started in 1953, the Confederate Battle Flag figured prominently in this patch’s design.
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Maryland would be an interesting, but difficult, state to use as a shape for an OA patch. To my knowledge no one has tried yet. None of the lodges with council headquarters in Maryland have even tried to use their state shape on a patch.
Only one lodge serves the state of Delaware and it’s not known for innovative or unusual patches. So the list of patches using these states’ shapes will be rather short.
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Are there too many posts to handle? Maybe you missed out on a great post. Here’s a quick digest of the top posts from last week that you may want to check out:
- 2008 Old Hickory Trade-O-Ree Report
Last Saturday, December 20th, I attended the 2008 Old Hickory Trade-O-Ree, sponsored by Wahissa lodge. As my collecting interests are now confined to a very specialized area, I didn’t do much trading or buying, but it was a good opportunity to get out and see some friends and acquaintance that I don’t get see that often.
- Merry Christmas… In Patches
Many lodges traditionally hold year-end functions around Christmastime. Some of these have included a specific reference to Christmas in the event name. A small group of lodges have used a Christmas theme on their patches for events not otherwise connected to this holiday, like the S5 from Tsoiotsi Tsogalii pictured here.
- The Soldier’s Night Before Christmas
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According to Snopes this poem was written in 1986 by James M. Schmidt, then a Lance Corporal stationed in Washington, D.C. It has since been adapted and circulated by others through the years, often with an erroneous attribution of authorship.I offer the original version for your reading and reflection this Christmas Eve.
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As I write this no announcement of the 2009 Region Chiefs has been made on the National OA Website. But election news has already been posted on the four regional sites.
Michael Beckman of Ku-Ni-Eh lodge has just been elected as the 2009 Central Region Chief. He was the section chief of C-4B.
Ryan Hay of Witauchsoman lodge is the 2009 Northeast Region Chief. He was most recently the section chief from NE-5B. He is also a past section vice chief of NE-4A.
Mark Norris of Woa Cholena lodge is the 2009 Southern Region Chief. He is the past Section SR-1B Chief. He has also served as past Section SR-4N Chief, Lodge Chief, Two Term Lodge Chief, Conclave Service Lodge Chairman, and S-4N Vice-Chief.
David Harrell was elected 2009 Order of the Arrow Western Region Chief. He was the section chief of W-5. His home lodge was not reported on the Western Region website.
Ah, Change! I have to love those reorganizations! 
At least two of the four newly elected region chiefs were each section officers in two different sections.
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The Order of the Arrow is once again covering the National Planning on its website. They have briefly reported the 2009 National Chief and Vice Chief.
Jack O’Neill was elected as the 2009 National Chief. Jack is a member of Shawnee Lodge of Greater St. Louis Area Council. He was the section chief of C-5C.
Dan Higham was elected as the 2009 National Vice Chief. Dan is a member of Otahnagon Lodge of Baden-Powell Council. He was the section chief of NE-3A.
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Wahissa lodge recently issued a set for the upcoming National Order of the Arrow Conference (NOAC). This features a simple, but unified design prominently featuring the American flag as a background. Wahissa is the second North Carolina lodge to have released NOAC patches.
This set has already appeared on eBay. It is also available for purchase from the lodge. I picked mine up at the recent Old Hickory Trade-O-Ree. If the lodge follows the custom established in 2004 and 2006, I would expect at least one additional set to be released at a later date.
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Recent OAImages News
August 31st, 2010
I Got Plenty of Nothing
"I got plenty o'nothin' and nothin's plenty for me..."
Wow, where did August go? Most of the month has gone by with nothing new appearing on this blog. It seems like it was only a few days ago that I was struggling with the server switch and site relocation. That is all done now and things appear to be going well. There are still some issues with broken links and missing images but I may be able to resolve that over the weekend. It's good to not have to worry about possible hardware failures.
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August 8th, 2010
25 Hours Later
The mail server at OAImages' new home has now remain unblocked by what I call the "internet gods" for over 25 hours now. That's a very good sign that they agree my server is clean and not a spammer. It appears my email problems are now resolved.
I only wonder who had this ip address before me and what were they doing to merit notice by CBL.
I will continue to monitor this situation. However if you have trouble getting email from this site's server, especially concerning passwords for the members area, please see my previous post on this subject.
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August 7th, 2010
Concerning Email and Broken Links
Update: 8/7/10 @ 1400: The block by CBL has been lifted for over four hours now. This is a good sign, but not a resolution of the problem below... yet.
Automated emails from this site's mail server are currently being blocked by many or most ISPs. It has been listed on the Composite Blocking List for being compromised in some way. I have already had it delisted, but it has been listed again.
This most directly affects subscribers to the site as it prevents automated messages concerning passwords from being delivered. I consider this a critical issue. If it cannot be resolved soon, I will return to the old server and hosting solution. In the mean time, please read the rest of this message if you are experiencing difficulties logging into the members area!
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August 6th, 2010
Watching The Traffic
I've been watching the traffic flow into the site since I flipped the switch here last night. It looks like DNS entries propagate very fast these days! That's a far cry from what I remember when I first built this domain when it still took several days for a DNS change to take effect.
If you want to see what sort of traffic this site gets, you can view the stats here:
http://www.oaimages.com/webalizer/usage_201008.html
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August 5th, 2010
Wilkommen, Bien Venue, Welcome
If you see this post you have accessed OAImages on its new home. It has been running at its IP address for over a week now. A few days ago, oaimages.net was pointed here. Late Thursday night, the switch was flipped for OAImages.com. It may take a couple of days for the DNS changes to propagate around the internet so some visitors may see this site sooner than others.
I expect there to be a few hiccups. Please let me know, preferably in the comments, if you experience any problems.
Thank you.
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July 28th, 2010
Today's Status Report
"Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo." - Robert Byrne
Another portion of this site's move has been accomplished. This blog's software, Wordpress, is now installed and running at the new location. Perhaps I should call it "OAImages Blog 2.0"?
Until the move is final, this blog will continue to be updated periodically. However, my primary focus now is on the site move. All previous blog posts and data will be transferred to the new location in due course.
My goal is to be moved into the new location by the time everyone returns home from the Jamboree, or shortly thereafter.
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