Monday, February 08, 2010

Scouting turns 100

Robert McHenry wrote

Today is the 100th anniversary of the chartering of the Boy Scouts of America. The scouting movement had begun in England in 1907, when Robert S.S. Baden-Powell, hero of the siege of Mafeking in the Boer War, organized a camp for boys on an island off the Dorset coast. The next year he published Scouting for Boys, based in part on Aids to Scouting, a handbook he had written some years earlier for use in the army.
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Robert McHenry does ask a valid question - is scouting still relevant? Check the official Boy Scouts of America site to see what you think!

Happy Birthday- and Be Prepared!

-kls

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