July 3 2015

Camp WaBak’s History

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camp-wabak-bookletWow, I’m on a roll here about Camp WaBak!  Thanks again to Lois Graves for scanning in a booklet published in 1998 to celebrate WaBak’s 50th anniversary.  I’ve been searching for any kind of history about Camp WaBak because there doesn’t seem to be anything published about it online.  Hopefully this blog post serves this purpose.

Lois scanned in the booklet’s pages, and I converted them to a PDF file that you can download here:  Camp WaBak Booklet

You can find more detailed information inside the PDF file, but here are a few highlights:  Continue reading

July 1 2015

Create Your Own Planisphere

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Many families don’t camp in this day and age, so most kids are missing out on a lot.  It’s a shame, because God’s wonders are free of charge and open 24/7.  I applaud the fact that GSUSA decided to make the outdoors a priority recently and offer new badges (and the requirements are free of charge – bonus!).

Now that I’ve gotten that comment out of the way, here’s a pretty cool activity you can do with your troop that they can take home.  One of the neat thing about Scouts is that you never know what will pique a child’s interest that eventually blossoms in the future.   It sounds pretty cheesy, but it’s true! Continue reading

June 29 2015

1982 World’s Fair, Part Two

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It’s time to finish the saga that was The 1982 World’s Fair Trip™!  After thinking through it, I probably could have just added this post to the original one because there’s not much to it.  But I couldn’t think of the name of the waterpark featured in this post at the time, and I wanted to go on and publish what I had.  It had been lingering out there for a couple of weeks.  This memory has nothing to do with Girl Scouts, so feel free to skip it unless you’re interested in another probable self-absorbed post. Continue reading

June 29 2015

Camp WaBak Song

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(h/t to Lois Graves for sending this to me!)

Did you know Camp WaBak has its own song?  It was written by Jean (“Happy”) Ligon in 1968:

Big Boy Mountain
Big Boy Mountain

Song of WaBak

Back in the hills is a camp we know
It’s been there long and we have learned to know
It’s a place to learn, to love, to grow.

Shining sunlight greets the day;
Rain may come, but clouds will blow away
And sun will smile as campers play.

WaBak, WaBak, where the wind blows free;
WaBak, Camp WaBak,
It’s a home for hearts, for you and me. Continue reading

June 26 2015

Tic Tac Toe and Doodles

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The other day, I was going through some boxes of my stuff up in the attic and came across the notebook I took with me on our Trip Out West™.  So as a follow-up to my “Kids These Days” post, I just wanted to post some examples of what you do when you’re stuck in a van (not down by the river) for eight or nine hours a day before the days of portable DVDs, cellphones, and tablets:  Continue reading