Duck Calls Jul-Sep 2001 posted

Larry Johnson recently provided me with a number of images for Conclave items and Siouan patches, and Ben Vincent sent me quite a few images of Siouan and Camp Waters emblems. As a result I've been spending time trying to find a good content management system ("CMS") to convert the Kecoughtan site to since it has grown way beyond anything I ever anticipated and well beyond simple maintenance of a few static HTML pages.

Meanwhile, today I posted a copy of the July-Sept 2001 copy of Duck Calls, the Lodge 333 newsletter. Thanks to Larry Johnson for scanning and sending the images. You'll find it along with many other copies of Duck Calls on the Duck Calls web page.

Colonial Virginia Council issues Eagle Class of 2008 CSP

Colonial Virginia Council held their annual Eagle Scout Recognition Banquet on Saturday, March 21 at the Crowne Plaza Hampton Marina Hotel, and issued a commemorative CSP in honor of the Eagle Class of 2008. The design is the same as the CSP issued for the 2007 Eagle Class.

New 333 conclave flap designs

Wahunsenakah Lodge Advisor George Homewood kindly shared these design images for upcoming flaps to be issued for the 2009 Section SR-7A Conclave. The Beaver Day flap shown above is restricted to Arrowmen who have performed at least 14 hours of service during the many Beaver Days the Lodge has scheduled to prepare Bayport Scout Reservation for the Conclave.

Lodge 333 2009 Conclave Host Staff flap

Lodge 333 2009 Conclave Host flap

Lodge 333 2009 Conclave Delegate flap

The SE-8 Chenille

One of the final emblems issued by Section SE‐8 was an attractive chenille patch featuring the stylized campfire logo of the section. When it was designed and ordered the Section officers and Council of Chiefs knew it would be the first and last chenille patch issued by SE‐8, because their section would soon be history.

This 4 page article with illustrations explores the history behind the SE‐8 chenille, attempts to explain its scarcity, and describes some rare prototypes.

Chanco Courier online archive debuts

Not very long ago DeWitt Holland kindly sent me a copy of The Chanco Chronicles 1952-1992, which was published by Lodge 483 in celebration of their 40th anniversary. It is an impressive document indeed, with fascinating details about the formation of the Lodge and the camps where Old Dominion Area Council Scouts spent many summers. I read the entire document at one sitting and eagerly scanned it and created a PDF version to post online to share with others who might be interested. Before posting it I wanted to find the author, Ben Vincent for his permission.

Some internet sleuthing led me to find Ben in West Virginia and several emails later I not only had his permission to publish The Chanco Chronicles, but also an update that included the history of the Lodge covering the final years until its merger with Kecoughtan Lodge in January of 1996.

I mentioned to Ben that I was interested in finding more information to share about Chanco Lodge, including any newsletters he might have since I only had copies of two. Ben responded with every newsletter that he was able to locate in his research for The Chanco Chronicles, a total of 84 issues in all.

These 84 issues are all now online in PDF format for you to read in a new Chanco Courier online archive that represents nearly 500 pages of news spanning 4 decades. I hope that you will enjoy reading them as much as I did while preparing them.

The archive includes links to each issue as well as pictures of newsletter mastheads throughout the years and a list of Arrowmen who served as editor. As someone who served in that role for my Lodge I have a keen appreciation for the amount of work that goes into a newsletter, but only now understand the role of Lodge historian that an editor fulfills for the many potential readers in the future.