In 2019 Eswau Huppeday Lodge of the Piedmont Council will host the Dixie Fellowship at Camp Bud Shiele. The patch design for this year features the standard delegate (top left red) and staff patch (top right pink) along with a trio of fundraiser patches around a ghosted star center patch. This will be the first …Read More
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Now that the dust has settled I’d like to write the story of how some of the host lodge patches became among the toughest pieces for Arrowmen attending the 2014 Dixie Fellowship at Camp Coker to attain. Similar to other lodges Santee 116 issued a host service flap for the event. The deal here was …Read More
Matt Delk has been collecting OA belt buckles for many years. During that time he has put together an impressive accumulation of buckles from the Carolinas including the Georgia lodges Bob White 87 and Tomo Chi-Chi 119. In this video shot in January 2014 he shares his collection and explains a little of the history …Read More
The November Council of Chiefs meeting has come and gone which means that plans are really finalized for the 2014 Dixie Fellowship to be held at Camp Coker and hosted by Santee Lodge 116. For memorabilia collectors this Dixie is going to be pretty typical as far as the items that will be issued. It …Read More
For more than three decades Hank Birdsong has been experimenting with making patch history books for Scouting memorabilia collectors. In this first installment of a new chat format for Boy Scout collectors Hank and I talk about that story using Google+ Hangout. Hank grew up in Wahissa Lodge 118 of the Old Hickory Council and …Read More
It is not official yet but it looks like the lodge leadership has settled on this design for their 2014 Dixie proposal. The design was originally done by C.J. McIlrath and refined by well known graphic artist Todd Knaperek from Tsali 134. The proposed theme for the event is “United In A Life Of Cheerful …Read More