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Happy Birthday, Daniel Boone
Come celebrate
October 25, 2009, 2:00PM
Hanes Park, Winston-Salem, NC

Cub Scouts
of the Piedmont District!

Help Daniel Boone celebrate his 275th birthday and commemorate the 100th year of Boy Scouting in America.

 

Join us in the northeast corner of Hanes Park on Sunday, Oct. 25, 2009 at 2:00 for a 90-minute celebration

 


Get in the picture - Bring your pack flag. Get your group picture made at the Daniel Boone arrowhead monument, dedicated on October 29, 1927.

 

Compete in some special field events to remember the 1927 Boy Scout Field Day:

Play Pathfinder - follow in the footsteps of Daniel Boone and practice you compass skills.

 

Play Packhorse Ramble – See how many packs of hides, pelts, and furs (stacked cardboard boxes) your team can move through the Cumberland Gap in 7 minutes.

 

Play Trailblazer – count your paces through a measured distance, then use your paces to mark a new trail, giving your teams’ best estimate of the distance between two points.

 

A Patch in Time – See the special collection of Boy Scout patches from Daniel Boone events across the country. Meet the collector, Rev. E. Gary Marshall, former Boy Scout leader and author of Rich Man: Daniel Boone.

 

A long look at a long rifle – displayed and handled by Rev. Gary Marshall, an avid blackpowder hunter. This Pennsylvania Long Rifle is how the pioneers put food on their dinner tables. See how it works (but no shots will be fired. Sorry.)

 

Story time – Scouts and families will gather together for an exciting story from the life of Daniel Boone. Give three cheers for America’s pioneer hero.

 

Everyone is a Winner - Celebrate 100 years of Scouting as we announce the results of the field events. Hear about the Boy Scout Field Event held in Hanes Park in 1927.

 

Healthy refreshments (apples, trail mix, and water) for those who let us know they are coming. (Or bring your own.)

 

 

Pack leaders:
Please email DBooneFootsteps@aol.com to let us know how many Scouts and adults will attend from your Pack. Please reply before Friday, Oct. 23 at 8:00AM. Volunteers are needed from each Pack to help with field events.

Parking instructions and other particulars will be shared with those pack leaders who respond.

 

Remember to bring your Pack flag for the photo.

 

Each Pack is responsible for chaperoning its own group.


Check this posting for announcements regarding event changes, especially due to weather.


See you there!


Congratulations Boy Scouts of America
- Now in its 100th year!

As we celebrate the 275th birthday of America's pioneer hero, we also celebrate the 100th anniversary of an organization founded on the tradition and legacy of Daniel Boone and built in the spirit of how he lived and lead others on the American frontier.

Daniel Boone and the BSA

 The legacy and heritge of Daniel Boone was instrumental in the formation of the Boy Scouts of America.

“The boy must be influenced not only in his out-of-door life but also in the diversions of his other leisure moments.  It is at such times that the boy is captured by the tales of daring enterprises and adventurous good times.” James West, Chief Scout Executive, expressed this belief when he announced in 1913 the founding of Every Boy’s Library as a source of great reading to present “the books the boy likes best, yet always the books that will be best for the boy.”

 

Among the first books to be included in Every Boy’s Library was Scouting with Daniel Boone by Everett T. Tomlinson and illustrated by a then-20-year-old Norman Rockwell. Published by the Boy Scouts of America in 1914, the preface expressed Tomlinson’s enthusiasm for Daniel Boone as a model Scout:

 

There has never been a time when the development of a true patriotism was more needed that it is today. Our perils and problems . . . may be no less dangerous than those which confronted our forefathers. How to meet them, what qualities out to be strengthened in the life of an American boy, how best to inspire the younger generation with love and devotion for our country, are vital questions for the present. The author believes there is no better way of doing this than by interesting our boys in such heroic men as Daniel Boone.

 

In 1905, Daniel Beard, a woodsman, naturalist, and magazine illustrator, formed the Society of the Sons of Daniel Boone (later The Boy Pioneers) to encourage American boys to preserve the pioneer spirit. Two decades before, he had written The American Boys’ Handy Book. Beard’s several books on woodsmanship were welcomed and reprinted by the growing Scouting Movement. He became BSA’s First National Commissioner. Dan Beard also designed the fleur-de-lis with the American Eagle into the BSA emblem. That design received its patent on July 4, 1911. ●


 
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