Skyuka lodge went through a period during the 1970s and 1980s where their Spring and Fall activity patches shared the same design.     Some of these events name both patches on each event, with the only distinguishing difference being the border color.   Unless one was familiar with the lodge’s issue (or carefully read this site) there would be no way of knowing which patch was for which event.    

Certainly this has confused folks over the years.     Some may have even erroneously thought that  either patch was for both events.     Given that there has been less than perfect editing of the South Carolina lodges in the past, it is not at all unreasonable that an event patch might be missed under these circumstances.     This is one such missed patch.

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Barring a change in position by the city of Philadelphia, the Cradle of Liberty Council is set to see the annual rent on their historic headquarters building rise from $1 to $200,000 per year.l

Fox News reported on this a few days ago:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,303420,00.html

Numerous other media outlets have also reported this story.     The crux of the situation is that Philadelphia law prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.     The city tried to find a solution with the Cradle of Liberty Council but the council had no real choice but to abide by the BSA’s policy on this issue, which was obviously not acceptable to Philadelphia.     The council must either vacate the building they have occupied since the Hoover administration or pay the $200,000 annual rent.

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Recently someone emailed me with a question about a patch he could not readily catalog. To him it was a “whatzit?” There were several clues on the patch by which I was readily able to tell him what lodge and issue it was. I explained to him what I did and want to share it here, too. The patch in question is pictured to the left.

The email correspondent thought it was possibly from lodge 75. But that number has been Kiskakon lodge since 1935 and never associated with Ocean County Council.

Let’s look at the evidence here and properly catalogue this item.

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Bob Mathis recently sent me these images.   I thought them so neat that I thought I’d share them here on this blog.

A while back I was carrying on here, as is my wont, about special issue low run patches and how they are being faked.   I opined that lodges should look for other ways than patches to reward special achievements.   I believe there are better ways to recognize brothers than by presenting them with a “special”, but still cheap, flap.

With that in mind, I share what Seminole 85 gave the attendees of their 1999 Winter fellowship.     It’s a gorget.     No patch was produced for this event.     While it can’t be sewn onto a uniform, jacket or patch blanket it can be worn with either the Scout uniform or ceremonial/dance regalia.

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The creator of this cartoon must have been spying on me at my house.     He’s captured what it’s like when “someone” (to anthropomorphize a pet) wants to wake me up.

Click on the image below (after the break) to see what life is like at my home.

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Atta Kulla Kulla lodge has issued a patch intended for their 2007 LLD.     Like in 2006 the patch is shaped like the lodge totem, the whippoorwill.     The only text on the patch is the year, 2007.     This patch was first mentioned in the comments to an earlier post  about this lodge’s issues.

Thanks to Brad Hutto for the image of this piece.

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Last Spring I wrote a post here on “The Geometry of Patches” in which I wrote about various patches shaped like regular polygons.     In that post I lamented about not being able to find a patch shaped as a regular nine-sided polygon (aka enneagon or nonagon).     Well, while working on the price guide earlier this evening I found one!

This is not a Blue Book item, as it’s a section conference patch, but still it’s something that was kind of sitting right under the noses of a few regular readers of this blog.     I would have thought someone from that flat peninsular state to my south would have picked up on this before.       Maybe all that tropical sun made them forget about this one.

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I can now add the 2007 Annual Meeting patch to the list of recent updates  for Tomo Chi-Chi  lodge.   Thanks again to Alan McDonald for this image.

Blue Book information is as follows:

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Atta Kulla Kulla lodge recently held their Fall Fellowship. As is customary, a single patch was issued for the event. Thanks to Jeff Cook for supplying the information and image of this piece.

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The activities listings of Tomo Chi-Chi lodge haven’t been updated in a few years.     Presumably this was because of a general lack of information about new issues from this lodge.       I suspected  the listings  were out of date but neither I nor the SC Blue Book editor  had  any more recent information.

It amazes me that Scouts today still look to Elvis Presley for patch design ideas.     I can remember when listening to your parents’ music was a “bad thing”.     Perhaps this is evidence of the quality of today’s artists?

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