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Doug Cook
Feb 20, 20212 min read
An Open Letter to all earning Scouting’s highest awards*
Welcome new Eagle Scout / Summit Award / Quartermaster Award / Gold Award Girl Scout recipient – congratulations on your accomplishment....
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Doug Cook
Jan 20, 20202 min read
24th World Scout Jamboree Tent Repair
Official published information sent to our contingent (Boy Scouts of America) Coleman® Sundome® 6-Person Dome Tent. Technical Details...
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Doug Cook
Nov 9, 20182 min read
11th Hour of the 11th Day of the 11th Month…
How the ending of World War 1 creates a new chapter in the history of the Scout Movement In 1907 the founder of the Scout Movement,...
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Doug Cook
Sep 26, 20182 min read
Jamboree Woggle
Here’s a crafting idea for your jamboree meetings or travel activity to keep your scouts busy on the way to the 24th World Scout...
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Doug Cook
Jun 3, 20183 min read
A postscript on Walter Nopper
Walter J Nopper, our Scoutmaster / Guthrie Scout Band director mentioned in my previous post, emigrated from Germany or Switzerland and...
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Doug Cook
Jun 1, 20182 min read
"The Untold Story of The Scout Band of Guthrie (1920 – 1922)"
Guthrie’s scouting history had a time when a coed scout band engaged in events regularly in the early 1920’s. Music playback was limited...
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Doug Cook
May 26, 20181 min read
Memorial Day and Boot Hill in Guthrie – 2018
At the end of the walkthrough of every tombstone, some of our scouts travelled over to a part of the cemetery called “Boot Hill.” A...
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Doug Cook
May 18, 20181 min read
118 years ago Today in Scouting History
Headline of the Guthrie Daily Leader, 19 May 1900 After 216 days of seige of in the second Boer War (1899-1902) Mafeking, a small...
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Doug Cook
Apr 28, 20181 min read
100 years ago today in Guthrie’s Scouting History
100 years ago on 29 April 1918, this advertisement from a local theater appeared showing probably the very first movie about scouting....
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Doug Cook
Dec 21, 20171 min read
Wood Badge Historical Tidbet and Guthrie’s Scouting Touch
The first course director of Wood Badge courses in the United States was William Hillcourt (aka Green Bar Bill). He authored many...
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Doug Cook
May 31, 20141 min read
Scouting Videos
Here are videos from Scouting over the past few years. Troop 850 Recruitment Video (2004) Scouting’s Sunrise (2007) On 1 August 2007 a...
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