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Santee Lodge 116 Brings Back The O-B-V
At the 2017 Fall Fellowship old blue is back at Camp Coker. After the National OA rescinded their outright ban on lodges making Ordeal-Brotherhood-Vigil flaps (now they just strongly discourage it) several lodges in the area are going back and reissuing sets. Catawba Lodge 459 was probably the first in the area to do this …Read More
Issues of the Palmetto State Time Capsule Edition
Issues of the Palmetto State This is an article that has not been on the web in at least a decade! This was posted on the original Santeeswapper.com (my first website) and was likely written in the late 1990s. I always had in my mind that this outline would make a great knowledge and training …Read More
Looking For Contributing Partners For The Website
Any Scout or Scouter is welcome to send in information and become a contributing partner with CarolinaOA.com. The idea for the website is that it’s a community effort to share the knowledge and new issues from lodges in SR-5 and SR-7B (mostly North Carolina/South Carolina). That means if the veteran collector that has everything wants …Read More
Catawba Brings Back The Vigil Flap
Some of you may know that in December of 2016 the National OA lifted their ban on lodges issuing flaps to recognize different levels of membership in the Order. While it’s strongly discouraged (I think that’s the language) there is no longer a prohibition. Many lodges in the Carolinas had Ordeal-Brotherhood-Vigil (OBV) sets prior to …Read More
Early Nayawin Rar Membership Pin
I recently acquired a merit badge sash from Charles B. who earned the rank of Eagle Scout in 1942 in Tuscarora Council. In our conversation regarding his scouting days he commented on being inducted into the Order of the Arrow with his younger brother during summer camp in 1945. Soon after the camp season had …Read More
Tsoiotsi Tsogalii Elangomat Patch Set
Three early pieces from Tsoiotsi Tsogalii Lodge 70 were issued for Elangomat service. In Blue Book they are designated as X2, X3, X4 and were earned in order clockwise on the picture included in this post. The patch set was intended to be worn on the pocket of the uniform and would encourage a brother …Read More
Cloth Talk 2.0 Episode #10: Putting Together Themed Collections
As Boy Scout memorabilia collectors how many of us have side collections that we started to have fun with? In this episode of Cloth Talk 2.0 Hank and I take turns discussing and holding up to the camera side collections that we have put together. One thing that many of these themes have in common …Read More
Tsoiotsi Tsogalii Lodge 70 Update Fall 2015
2015 Fall Fellowship / Council Camporee On the weekend of November 13 – 15 Tsoiotsi Tsogalii Lodge celebrated the Order of the Arrow’s 100th anniversary. The lodge decided to expand its traditional Fall Fellowship into a Council Camporee. Over 1,400 Scouts and Scouters gathered at Cherokee Scout Reservation for a weekend of fun and competition. …Read More
2016 Activity Set For Santee 116 Is Approved
For the 4th year in a row Santee Lodge 116 will have an activity patch set for the upcoming 2016 year. Paxton Roberts had his design approved at the recent fellowship with the first patch coming out in January for Winter Banquet. The set features some familiar parakeets and pulls on a lot of Santee …Read More
Santee 116 Centennial Issues Are Out!
Just came back from Camp Coker and the Santee Lodge 116 Summer Fellowship. Numerous patches were issued and I thought I’d post here on CarolinaOA.com an update for the collecting community. I will use Blue Book issue #s only as a suggestion as these are what I would assign them in order of issue. S45 …Read More