Month: October 2025
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A Bargain at Any Cost
As long as I can remember, a Scout uniform has always seemed expensive. Here’s a newsflash: It is cheaper now than it was in 1915 when so many kids were joining the movement! Converted to today’s dollars, a uniform in those days cost $257 and that didn’t include a neckerchief, but it did include a…
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A History of the Blue Ridge Mountains Council Scout Reservation
As Recalled by Joe Davis, Scout Executive of BRMC (1956-1960) This Narrative was Compiled by Ben Crawford of Blacksburg, VA in June, 1998 It was the November 1956 meeting of the Blue Ridge Council Executive Board when Dr. Charles Martin took me aside to inform me that he had received authorization to sell the mountain…