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Occoneechee’s M3 & Arrow Tour Host

Occoneechee’s M3 & Arrow Tour Host On May 15-17 Occoneechee Lodge held their Spring Inductions at Camp Durant. A new metal flap (M3) sporting the centennial logo was issued that weekend. It sold out early on Friday evening leaving many disappointed folks without one. The original order was for 250 pieces…the same amount for previous metal flaps. Due to the quick …Read More



Eswau Huppeday Issues A Time Traveling Flap

Eswau Huppeday Issues A Time Traveling Flap Below is the Eswau Huppeday Dixie delegate flap. It is a much toned down from original design that had a much more future look to our totem, a much further into the future look! Our lodge theme for the year is time travel, and this totem gets us a little more into the future. The …Read More



Patch Trading Feeding Frenzy at the Cardinal Conclave

Patch Trading Feeding Frenzy at the Cardinal Conclave This video takes you inside the non-stop Boy Scout patch trading at the 2015 Section SR7B Cardinal Conclave. Held at Camp Tuscarora in Four Oaks, North Carolina this was the largest conclave in the nation during the centennial year of the Order of the Arrow. Please leave comments below and share!



Occoneechee Breaks New Ground in April Report

Occoneechee Breaks New Ground in April Report Occoneechee Lodge is going to the SR-7B Conclave with a “Tourist” theme this year. The trading flap for the weekend is a flap designed as a traveler’s suitcase full of stickers from all the places they’ve traveled to over the years. These flaps sold out in less than 2 hours when first issued at Pow-Wow …Read More



2015 MSU Delegate Set Released

2015 MSU Delegate Set Released Croatan Lodge will be sending a large delegation to the 2015 NOAC at Michigan State University. We will celebrate our heritage by incorporating many themes from Lodge Patches from the past. This will be a 5 piece set which will include a Center Patch and an East Carolina Council CSP. One unique aspect of the …Read More



Itibap Issues NOAC Fundraiser Set

Itibap Issues NOAC Fundraiser Set Itibapishe Iti Hollo (188) recently released its 2015 NOAC fundraiser set. The set is a three patch set of puff embroidery over felt with the 100th OA Anniversary logo as a riveted metal piece. Borders are Red, Black, and White and have been assigned OA Image designations of F6 (Red), F7 (Black), and F8 (White). …Read More



Santee Centennial Set Rolls Out For the OA Birthday

Santee Centennial Set Rolls Out For the OA Birthday To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Order of the Arrow Santee 116 is issuing an activity patch set.  Although the first event in the set happened in January the patches were not ready.  However, they were sold at the recent Spring Fellowship and the lodge store adviser was kind enough to bring out the …Read More



Croatan Lodge Conclave Flap

Croatan Lodge Conclave Flap Croatan Lodge will be celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the OA with a Birthday Party Theme at Conclave.  There will 1000 Flaps in circulation.  They will go on sale at the March Ordeal.   Wayne Miller Croatan Lodge Patch Advisor



Cloth Talk 2.0 Episode 9: Having Fun With Side Collections

If you are bitten by the patch bug then one way to treat your illness is to develop fun and inexpensive side collections that you can work on at any time. Hank Birdsong has done this by starting up a collection of cancer awareness patches issued by the Boy Scouts. The whole point here is …Read More



Cloth Talk 2.0 Episode #8: How To Build Up Trading Stock Without Going Broke

Cloth Talk 2.0 Episode #8: How To Build Up Trading Stock Without Going Broke In this episode of Cloth Talk 2.0 Hank and Jason share ideas for how you can accumulate Boy Scout memorabilia to use in trades without busting your budget. Jason starts it off by sharing two examples of how he saw an opportunity to purchase extra OA patches at a good price and he invested in …Read More