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2014 Catawba Lodge Eagle Scout Flap Pre-Order Form
All pre-orders MUST be submitted to the Lodge by Friday, August 22, 2014. The quantity desired will be dependent on how many are pre-ordered. Your order will be available for pickup at the 2014 Fall Fellowship or you can add $5.00 to your order total and it will be shipped to you. Catawba Lodge has …Read More
Creating The Definitive Muscogee 221 Insignia Guide – the Author’s Story Part 3
The nice thing about working alone for the majority of the book was that I was able to work at my own pace. I could sit down and knock out just a page or two, or I could work until two o’clock in the morning and finish an entire chapter. When I met up with …Read More
Creating The Definitive Muscogee 221 Insignia Guide – the Author’s Story Part 2
Despite my eagerness to get started, I needed to first plan out the book’s format and its scope. It is well-known in the patch collecting community that many issues fall into more than one category and are not always easy to label. I had to decide if I wanted to follow traditional cataloging conventions or …Read More
Creating The Definitive Muscogee 221 Insignia Guide – the Author’s Story Part 1
History has always been a passion of mine. Ever since I began collecting patches as a youth, I have often wondered about the stories behind them. I gained a lot of this knowledge early on by attending the patch auctions that Muscogee held at each of its fellowships and listening to the narratives the auctioneers …Read More
Muscogee Lodge Deja Vu
Sometimes when seeing a patch you have that déjà vu experience and you think to yourself, “Where have I seen that before?” Here are a few from Muscogee that conjure up that feeling. (Images are courtesy of Jason Shull unless otherwise noted) The 1985 Spring Fellowship patch was based on the 1959 Camp Barstow patch. …Read More
Croatan Lodge 117 F1
While many OA lodges began issuing flap shape patches in 1957 and 1958, Croatan Lodge did not issue its first flap until 1960. This cut-edge, twill flap had a design similar to the lodge’s series of arrowhead, odd shape patches that were used from 1953 – 1959. There is a skinny, blue deer jumping inside …Read More
Un A Li’yi 236 Dixie Fellowship Issues
Un A Li’yi Lodge 236 hosted the Dixie Fellowship in 2013 at Camp Ho Non Wah on Wadmalaw Island near Charleston, SC. This post shares the official Dixie items as well as the host items for that year. The lodge has a tradition dating back over the last several times they’ve hosted of using the …Read More
Catawba Lodge History N-1 Classic Neckerchief
The cartoon bee, as it is affectionately known, was designed to be worn by the Catawba Lodge Delegates to the 1965 NOAC Convention. Unfortunately, these did not arrive in time for the convention and were not issued to the delegates. As a result of the delayed shipment of the N-1 Neckerchief, the Lodge chose to …Read More
Santee 116 Dixie Fellowship Host Flap Broke the Mold
If you go back and take a look at lodge host items issued for either the Cardinal Conclave or Dixie Fellowship I think 1983 marks the beginning of a new era. Up until that point I’m not aware of any patches being issued by host lodges unless you want to count some of the early …Read More
The Battle of Guilford Courthouse Historic Trail
For over 30 years the Order of the Arrow lodge in Greensboro, NC has sponsored a historic trail. On March 15, 1781 American troops and militia under the leadership of General Nathanael Greene fought British forces led by General Cornwallis in the Battle of Guilford Courthouse. Two hundred years later on February 6, 1981 Tali …Read More