Archive for July 24th, 2007


By now you know of Buttons, the radical Boy Scout. You have probably read the recent post about Eymard, the eighty year old assistant scoutmaster. What happens when they meet in the woodlands on a Troop 68 outing and conduct an interview? Well, it ain’t no Larry King style interview, that is for sure.

Eymard was a very good sport about the whole thing. He and Buttons exchanged some good natured teasing and had fun doing the interview. They discuss Eymard’s duties as an assistant scoutmaster, his age, cooking skills, knot tying, woolly worms, and other subjects.

Meanwhile, in the background, the Boy Scouts are preparing for the annual Camp Watchamagumee Egg Drop Competition. They are gathering natural materials to package an egg. During the competition the egg and package will be dropped, higher and higher, until only one egg survives.

It has been a couple months since we have made a video with Buttons. I hope you enjoy it. We had fun making it. And hopefully, within the couple of weeks, there will be another new video featuring that radical Boy Scout. If you have any ideas for a video featuring Buttons we want to hear about it. Drop us a note.

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Here are a few good quotes about Boy Scouting I found through the help of the internet:

“We must depend upon the Boy Scout Movement to produce the MEN of the future. Daniel Carter Beard.

A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.Robert Baden-Powell.

The simplest way of saying this for the very young Scout is to do a good turn to someone every day: that is, to be a giver and not a taker.” Juliette G. Low.

“In the 30 years that I’ve been doing this for a living, I’ve never had a parent say to me, ‘I regretted the time I spent with my son or child in Scouting.'” Roy L. Williams, Chief Scout Executive, Boy Scouts of America.

and one fun one….
Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision. Blake Clark.