Showing posts with label scouts. Show all posts
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Friday, January 8, 2010

Boy Scout Camp

"However, before he published [Scouting for Boys, Baden-Powell] tested out his methods with a small experimental camp on Brownsea Island.... Wild and well wooded, with sandy shores, it was good Scouting country and, more importantly perhaps, from B.-P.'s point of view, it was remote and unobserved. To this island, then, came men, boys and gear, and on 29th July, 1907, the historic camp began."

-- B.-P.'s Scouts: An Official History of The Boys Scouts Association (1961), by Henry Collis, Fred Hurll, and Rex Hazlewood