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Post by badmedicine on May 28, 2013 14:01:13 GMT -5
I was scrolling through Ebay & ran across this old postcard. This is Camp Phillips in Northern WI, were my troop used to go every summer. The area on the other side of the first boat was the waist deep nonswimmer's section where my buddy Mickey & I were banished our first year. It was so embarrassing we vowed to learn to swim by the next year. Mickey moved away, but the following summer I earned my mile swim badge on that very lake. Up by the canoe racks was where you had to bend over & take a whack on the rear with a canoe paddle if you were the last one out of the water when the whistle blew. Imagine the public outcry that would cause nowadays, lol. Click to enlarge
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Post by badmedicine on May 28, 2013 16:05:24 GMT -5
It was always the highlight of my summer back then. I would've enjoyed going back to be a councilor, but the time I was 14, the scouting program had petered out in my hick little town, so 1974 was the end of it for me.
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Post by shred on May 29, 2013 2:35:42 GMT -5
I'll never forget the wide games I played on Scout camps as a kid at Squirrel Wood. Once shot a pheasant during a water pistol game I was deep in the woods and suddenly something came up very fast from the ground. I'd shot it 3 times before I realised what it was.
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2013 15:11:37 GMT -5
i got SO many badges from camping whilst in the girl scouts. screw selling cookies...........
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Post by badmedicine on May 30, 2013 18:55:15 GMT -5
i got SO many badges from camping whilst in the girl scouts. screw selling cookies........... I was heavy into the badges too & learned a lot of things I've used throughout my life. Certainly can't say that about school...took me half my life to unlearn all that garbage, lol.
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2013 18:58:56 GMT -5
i got SO many badges from camping whilst in the girl scouts. screw selling cookies........... I was heavy into the badges too & learned a lot of things I've used throughout my life. Certainly can't say that about school...took me half my life to unlearn all that garbage, lol. when i think back to all the crap i learned in high school...... it's a wonder i can think at all..............
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2013 19:16:27 GMT -5
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