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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Here’s another oddity that many have not seen and I have no real idea what it should be.

While at the SC TOR this past weekend, someone told me Johnny Pleasants had on his table a red bordered flap with the S9 design.   “Impossible!”  I said, “There is no such flap.”  I walked over to Brush Creek’s table and asked Johnny about it.  He reaches into one of his bins and pulls out this piece.

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