I have collected scout patches since I was a kid and am always looking for quite a few different ones. Anyone else on here collect patches, hat pins, neckerchiefs, etc.?

Yes but not since 1969 Jamboree. Somewhere I have a box full.

Are you looking for Council strips or event patches as well? I some how always ended up with the extra event patches

I have a few. Never really got into it seriously, but I have several I like. I have collected a number of patches from the Northern Wisconsin National Canoe Base (aka Region 7) only because it was Wisconsin's only national base. It's been closed since 1985. I also have several council and OA patches. This discussion might make me pull out my Scout box to take inventory!

I might have a spare flap from my previous lodge's 20th anniversary that I'd be willing to trade for something equally interesting. I'd have to go dig into "Dad's box of old Scout stuff" to see what I have for sure.

Its silver & black, Mascoutens Lodge #8. Looks like this.

Yep. I did a little bit of collecting and swapping. My father also picked up some for me while traveling. Funny thing I don't have any of my own council or lodge....
As I recall, far right, down 3 was the prize....

The Malibu flap? Looks nice.

I collect our Council event patches plus CSPs and JSPs and OA flaps from the councils around ours and that used to be in our OA sections. So pretty much all of Iowa and Illinois

Jackfish: "I have a few. Never really got into it seriously, but I have several I like. I have collected a number of patches from the Northern Wisconsin National Canoe Base (aka Region 7) only because it was Wisconsin's only national base. It's been closed since 1985. I also have several council and OA patches. This discussion might make me pull out my Scout box to take inventory!"

I just joined this forum and saw this old thread. I wonder if the Canoe Base you are talking about is the same one I went to back in the early 60's. We went to the Canoe Base out of White Sand Lake in Northern Wisconsin - Region 7. My love for canoeing started there. Our first guide (Chuck Patchin? was his name) taught me so much!

I also have a bunch of old patches. We went to the 1964 Jamboree in Valley Forge.



Fun to think about Scouting again!

Dave

RetiredDave: "

Jackfish: "I have a few. Never really got into it seriously, but I have several I like. I have collected a number of patches from the Northern Wisconsin National Canoe Base (aka Region 7) only because it was Wisconsin's only national base. It's been closed since 1985. I also have several council and OA patches. This discussion might make me pull out my Scout box to take inventory!"

I just joined this forum and saw this old thread. I wonder if the Canoe Base you are talking about is the same one I went to back in the early 60's. We went to the Canoe Base out of White Sand Lake in Northern Wisconsin - Region 7. "

Hi Dave,
The canoe base on White Sand Lake is the one! Cool that you were able to go. I grew up in southwestern Wisconsin and don't even recall hearing about the canoe base when I was in Scouts in the 70s. Then again, even though I earned the Canoeing merit badge, canoeing didn't become "part of me" until my mid-20s.

You would have loved it, Jackfish! I learned so much, not only about canoeing, but about myself. I was halfway between kid and young man, and the challenges weighed heavy on me at times. Everything was so heavy, my muscles hadn't quite appeared yet, and the leeches loved my legs! Yet, I returned again three times.

One time, when I had cooking duty for the group, I was in the middle of cooking the spaghetti (a meal we had all been waiting for) and I realized I had forgotten to soap the bottom of the pot. So I kind of turned it over to soap the bottom, and all the noodles fell in the fire. I was the most hated person in Wisconsin for a night, but by the time the campfire had burned low, all was forgiven.

Thanks for your reply, I loved the Region 7 Canoe Base, and I hope kids today, and in the future, have the opportunities I had.

Dave