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Artifact of the Week 20250207 - Sea Scouts
Sea Scouting is the second-oldest program in Scouting America getting its start in 1912. In its early days, Sea Scouting struggled with direction and membership, and its heyday was in the 1940s. Despite those limitations, Sea Scouting perseveres and, while it is small, is a growing part of Scouting America.
If you are interested in Scouting with a different flair, then Sea Scouting might be the ticket for you. Talk to your council office about Sea Scout Ships in your area, or gather up some friends and start your own Sea Scout Ship.
For more information about Sea Scouts, check out their website, seascout.org/.
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Artifact of the Week 2025013 - WW II Gardening
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With the outbreak of World War II, the Boy Scouts were once again engaged in large-scale, nationwide community service projects. One of these was a food production program, much like the one that was completed during the First World War. Titled “Food for Freedom,” in addition to Victory Gardens and a variety of ways Scouts participated in farms and grew vegetables for their own summer camps, th...
Artifact of the Week 20250124 - WWI Gardening
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While Scouts of Scouting America have a history of community service that goes back to the very beginning of the organization, the first nationwide, wholesale mobilization of Scouts occurred during the First World War when the Executive Board of the National Council pledged the cooperation of the BSA in many nationwide wartime service projects. The very first of these was "Every Scout to Feed a...
Artifact of the Week 20250117 - Knabe Villa Piano
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When visiting the Villa Philmonté, guests are not allowed to touch the artifacts found in the home to help preserve and protect these nearly 100-year-old treasures. There is one exception, and that is the 1927 Knabe Player Piano found in the main living room of the Villa. Ruaidhrí Belfry Crofton, Villa Philmonté Curator, tells us the story of this special Knabe Piano and some of the other histo...
Artifact of the Week 20250110 - Omar the Camel
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In the 1850s and 1860s, the United States Army experimented with using camels for transportation and as pack animals in the Southwestern United States. Philmont and the Cimarron area are not strangers to the idea of camels roaming our landscape. Learn more about Omar the Camel and the Camels found near Maxwell, New Mexico.
Artifact of the Week NEW 20250103 1935 Jambo Trip Scrapbook Pt 03
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In the third and final installment of the 1935 Jamboree Scrapbook, we not only get to experience the final stages of their trip back to California, including a camping stop in Glacier National Park, but we also learn about the three Scouts responsible for this epic journal of their adventures. The McCurry brothers served in the Army during World War II, returned home to run their father’s busin...
2024 NSM Christmas Greeting
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Happy Holidays from all of us here at the National Scouting Museum
Artifact of the Week 20241220 1935 Jambo Trip Scrapbook Pt 02
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Technology has once again conspired to try and stop Artifact of the Week, but alas we have prevailed. This week it is part two of our look at the amazingly detailed and interesting scrapbook assembled by three Sacramento Scouts documenting their trip from California to Washington DC despite the 1935 Jamboree having been cancelled. This week we follow their adventures from Chicago to Ann Arbor, ...
Artifact of the Week 20241213 - 1935 Jambo Trip Scrapbook
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Scrapbooks, photo albums, and diaries can give us a very personal insight into a period of time or an event or even fill in the details of a historical moment. This week, we are going to see how one Troop and specifically three Scouts from the Sacramento, California, area, handled the cancellation of the 1935 National Jamboree. Over the next three weeks, we will follow their journey from prepar...
Artifact of the Week 20241206 - Perot Oral History
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Originally, he was named Henry Ray, but he changed his middle name to Ross in honor of his older brother, Gabriel Ross, who died as a young child. Thereafter, he went by Ross Perot. Even though he was irritated by the practice, journalists often included his first initial in media reports, naming him H. Ross Perot. Based on an oral history recording produced by the National Scouting Museum in 2...
Artifact of the Week 20241122 - Hillcourt Oral History
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We have told the stories of Green Bar Bill several times, but whether it is a traditionally researched piece or an interview with a GBB expert like Nelson Block, the stories take on a whole new meaning when they come from GBB himself. This week, we are treated to an excerpt from an oral history interview recorded by the National Scouting Museum back in 1992 with William “Green Bar Bill” Hillcou...
NSM - Irving DVD
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Animatronic Baden-Powell interacts with an animated Pee Wee Harris of Boys' Life fame.
Artifact of the Week 20241115 - Scouting for Food
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“To help other people at all times” and “To do a good turn daily.” These statements are part of the core values that make Scouting one of the greatest youth leadership and character development programs available. Since 1910, Scouts have been putting these ideals into practice through community service projects, whether these have been individual service projects completed to meet a rank requir...
Artifact of the Week 20241108 - Marksmanship
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Earlier this year, a very generous donor gifted six of the Henry BSA Commemorative Rifles to the National Scouting Museum. This week, we are going to check out these beautiful firearms and learn about the history of Marksmanship in Scouting America. In addition to the rifles you will see in this segment, Ruger also made a commemorative rifle for the BSA, and there is at least one Daisy BB Gun m...
Artifact of the Week 20241101 - Archives Bizarre
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Museum collections are full of items that sometimes make you scratch your head, wondering what they are, where they came from, and how they got into your collection. Earlier this summer, the State of New Mexico Office of Public Records and Archives started planning an Archives Bizarre Bazaar event to showcase some of the unique, kooky, artistic, weird, and, yes, just plain bizarre artifacts fou...
Artifact of the Week 20241025 WP Savage Rifle 1
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Artifact of the Week 20241025 WP Savage Rifle 1
Artifact of the Week 20241018 - Patch Vests
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Artifact of the Week 20241018 - Patch Vests
Artifact of the Week 20241011 Swastikas and Scouting
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Artifact of the Week 20241011 Swastikas and Scouting
Artifact of the Week 20241004 - Treasure Island & Goodman-Edson Museum
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Artifact of the Week 20241004 - Treasure Island & Goodman-Edson Museum
Artifact of the Week 20240920 1939 NE Bike Trip Revisited
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Artifact of the Week 20240920 1939 NE Bike Trip Revisited
Artifact of the Week 20240913 - 1924 World Jamboree
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Artifact of the Week 20240913 - 1924 World Jamboree
Artifact of the Week 20240906 Seton Library
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Artifact of the Week 20240906 Seton Library
Artifact of the Week 20240830 - Gettysburg Badge
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Artifact of the Week 20240830 - Gettysburg Badge
Artifact of the Week 20240823 - Cimarron & Northwestern Railway Part 2
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Artifact of the Week 20240823 - Cimarron & Northwestern Railway Part 2
Artifact of the Week 20240816 - Logging and Railroads in Colfax County
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Artifact of the Week 20240816 - Logging and Railroads in Colfax County
Artifact of the Week 20240809 - Billy Clark Story
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Artifact of the Week 20240809 - Billy Clark Story
Artifact of the Week 20240802 - NOAC GEO
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Artifact of the Week 20240802 - NOAC GEO
Artifact of the Week 20240719 reedit - Wood Carving
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Artifact of the Week 20240719 reedit - Wood Carving
Artifact of the Week 20240726 - Japan's Unknown Scout Memorial
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Artifact of the Week 20240726 - Japan's Unknown Scout Memorial
Artifact of the Week 20240712 - Boy Rangers of America
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Artifact of the Week 20240712 - Boy Rangers of America