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April 15th, 2012
Looking for Trading Stock?
Over the past several years I have accumulated an abundance of flaps. This is an opportunity for you. I can now offer lots of ten (10) different and assorted flaps, all mint and no spoofs/fakes, for $40 postpaid to US addresses.
Please, at this time this is a limit of one lot per person. No requests for particular issues or lodges can be honored. My extras are stored in boxes and I will pull them out ten at a time at random.
If interested please send payment via PayPal to me at jpannell@triad.rr.com. Please remember to include your address. Thanks and happy collecting!
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March 7th, 2012
Lodge 296: Region Chief Flap, "MVE"
Greg Grimes recently sent me this image of two RED bordered 2012 Home of the Region Chief flaps, showing something he noticed about them. Apparently there may be thin and thick letter variations in this issue. To me this is not significant enough to be listed as a variety. It is for cases like this that my site uses the notation, "MVE" (minor variations exist).
I told Greg I would share this image with fellow collectors. What do you think? Chase after this variation or not; that is completely up to you!
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March 5th, 2012
Breast Cancer Patch Checklist
Now that there is a growing list of breast cancer related patches as well as a devoted group of collectors chasing after them, I thought now is a good time to put together a list of those issues. I now know of at least 18 issues from 12 lodges, including a key fob and one chapter issue.
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March 4th, 2012
Ahoalan-Nachpikin Issues Breast Cancer Flap
Ahoalan-Nachpikin lodge from Memphis, TN has joined the growing list of lodges (and one chapter) that have issued patches in support of breast cancer research. As with many others, this issue is also a pink monochrome. Thanks to Nick DeMarco for supplying this image.
If you know of any other patches that have been issued for this cause, please either send the images to me or comment on this post below. Thanks.
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February 21st, 2012
2012 NOAC Issues Page Added
I have just added a page to this site showing lodge issues for this Summer's National Order of the Arrow Conference (NOAC). You may view it here:
http://www.oaimages.com/noac12.shtml
Presently on a few issues are shown. If you know of any that should be added, please let me know. This list should grow rapidly as we get closer to NOAC.
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Archive for June, 2008
Since 1998, Aal-Pa-Tah Lodge 237 has served their fellow Scouts at the Gulf Stream Council, literally, by running a booth that sells meals to the attendees. Patches have been made each year for the barbeque pork and fried turkey since that first year, with additional pieces for the staff of the event. This year continues the baseball theme that began in 2006, but this was the first year with a different patch for the pork and turkey*.
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"History never looks like history when you are living through it."
John W. Gardner
The theme for the activity patches for Aal-Pa-Tah Lodge 237 in 2008 is the ArrowCorps5 program, as previously mentioned in an earlier blog entry. What had been pictured was the first “year theme patch” design for 2008, the large version of the pentagon AC5 fundraiser, with more to come.
Well, more has come, in the form of a second year theme patch, and this is sure to set a record. The patch has 30 sides. I have also been told that there are 32 different colors, but I have not confirmed this. With this configuration (also measuring 11 inches tall, 11 1/2 inches wide), it is also unlikely to be sewn onto a jacket. Continue Reading »
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"Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery."
Calvin Coolidge
Observant users of this site will notice the ShoppingAds advertisements disappeared from the site yesterday. Very observant users may have noticed a previous post that was on the bottom portion of this page promoting this same service had disappeared before that.
I have been experiencing some problems with ShoppingAds since late April. I believed their accounting of website traffic was inaccurate. Various reports on their site about my traffic contradicted each other. Income had been below normal most of the year but really started dropping in April. May’s total was less than half the running average. So far, May is running at about 15% of what I would normally have expected. Neither site traffic nor ad impressions have seen a similar drop.
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"...The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die."
Robert Hutchins
Semialachee Lodge (239) has had a couple of new activity patches in the last few months. First is for their recent Spring Fellowship, the other is for a council event to prepare Wallwood Boy Scout Reservation for the upcoming Summer Camp season, but with the lodge name on the patch. This is similar to two issues that Echockotee 200 had made for camp preparation.
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"Duty is not collective; it is personal."
Calvin Coolidge
The ten OA lodges of North Carolina gathered at Morrow Mountain State Park for the 1946 Area I meeting. Klahican lodge, formed the previous Winter, joined the nine lodges at the 1945 meeting. This was the first of three area fellowships held at this location, all hosted by Itibapishe Iti Hollo 188.
This year marks the issuance of the first patch for a North Carolina area fellowship. This felt patch is similar in design to the 1945 neckerchief slide. In a change from 1945 the location, Morrow Mountain (State) Park, is now indicated on the patch. The meeting date was moved from late September to early October.
Like all Area I meeting items, this patch is very scarce. It is not often seen for sale or trade.
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"Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book."
Ronald Reagan
Bill Mulrenin has been doing a periodic series of posts on his blog covering the memorabilia of the Section Conclaves and Area Fellowships for New York lodges. Since things are slowing down a bit here, I thought I would take the chance to do the same for conclaves here in North Carolina. Perhaps, I’ll also cover other sections in the Southeast if there’s interest and I get sent the necessary images.
The first OA area fellowship, the precursor of today’s section conclaves, in North Carolina was held in 1945 at Camp Graystone. Tali Taktaki 70 served as the host lodge. Area I, in existence from 1945-1949, covered the entire state of North Carolina. Memorabilia from these early meetings are arguably the most highly prized conclave insignia from North Carolina.
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"Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. "
Dwight D Eisenhower
By now most readers of this blog are aware of the tornado that struck Little Sioux Scout Ranch in western Iowa yesterday. Four Scouts lost their lives and dozens more suffered injuries. Our prayers go out to all those affected by this tragedy.
Earlier Thursday (6/12) the Mid-America Council, BSA had announced on their website that a mechanism to help those affected would be established. The message has since changed slightly. Grief counselors are available to those affected. I would expect this council was flooded with phone calls this morning. The council now asks that you do not call the council office unless you are a family member of someone affected by this tragedy.
Their camp was devastated by this disaster. Lives were shattered. I expect a fund to be established to receive donations for the camp and affected families. As I draft this post, nothing yet has been announced regarding that. Mid-America Council will make further announcements on their website as they know more.
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"There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome-to be got over. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
After some thunderstorms moved through our area today, I was able to get in a 28.5 mile ride. This is now my longest ride so far this year. Even though it was very humid and we have some haze here from forest fires well to our east, it was the most cofortable ride of the past two weeks. It was nice to go biking without have to worry about 90 degree heat.
Today’s ride was primarily a jaunt through countryside of eastern Guilford county, between the towns of Gibsonville and McLeansville. The route is after the break.
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"Keep cool and you command everybody. "
Louis de Saint-Just
Jay Dunbar recently posted this message on the Arrow-l listserv. With his permission, I am sharing it here. If interested in this book, please contact him at the email address at the end of this post.
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I am pleased to announce that I now have 500 copies of the latest printing of the perennial favorite THE DRUM: A Training Aid for Ceremonial Teams, by Tischitanissohen (40 pages, illustrated: edition 10.3).
A classic underground training aid, THE DRUM has revolutionized ceremonial performance nationwide in hundreds of lodges for 30 years. Here is what one lodge advisor said about it:
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"Civilization and profit go hand in hand."
Calvin Coolidge
Here is the next entry in the series of posts on state shaped patches, and state shapes used in patches. About a third of the states have now been covered. Previous entries may be found in the category, “These 50 States.”
I was not able to find any lodge issues strictly shaped like the state of Louisiana but there many that use the shape of this state as part of their design. This section conclave patch, for an event hosted by Ouxouiga lodge was the best I could do.
I seem to vaguely remember another, significantly older, patch in the shape of this state but have been unable to locate it on my site. I think it may have had Chilantakoba’s pelican on it. Is this familiar to anyone else?
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Donald H. Rumsfeld
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April 1st, 2012
April Fool!
It should go without saying that my post about this site being sold to a Google/eBay partnership was my annual April Fool's post. I have no plans at this time to give up or sell this web site. Long time readers will know this has become quite the tradition here and I usually start planning the posts several months in advance. The most famous (infamous?) of these was 2008's post concerning the abolishment of lodge names. It still creates difficulty from time to time for those in authority in the OA and BSA due to the inability of some to detect obvious (in my opinion) satire.
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April 1st, 2012
OAImages Soon Under New Ownership
This post contains important information regarding the future of this website. Please read carefully.
Many have noticed that I have found it hard to maintain this website for quite some time now. Due to various reasons, some of them beyond my control, updating the price guide regularly has become all but impossible. Things have become a bit less chaotic, but after 15 years this has become a chore. I also know that there will come the day when control of this site will need to be passed to another. With all that in mind, I have been considering various options for the future of OAImages. In the midst of this, a several months ago I was contacted by someone who made me an offer that was too good to resist. After many months of negotiations I am now free to announce that this site has been purchased by a combined partnership of Google and eBay. This will be effective July 1, 2012.
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January 30th, 2012
Tschipey Achtu Lodge: Update
Back in 2010 I announced the formation of Tschipey Achtu lodge as a result of the merger of Ty-Ohni 95 and Ganeodiyo 417. At the time I was told they would use the number 397, which is also their council number. This created a bit of controversy as that number is currently in use by Chilantakoba lodge in Louisiana. I also announced their first flap. Other than a 2010 Jamboree issue no further news from this lodge made it to me.
I was talking with a Roger Ward last night who was at the recent Winter South Carolina Trade-O-Ree. He tells me it has not been quiet in that lodge. The use of 397 was problematic. Many wanted to choose a different number. Some wanted to claim the number zero, but that was not well received given the special place Unami 1 holds in the Order of the Arrow. The Scout Executive, I am told, stepped in and told the lodge they will use the lower number from the two merged lodges.
The lodge is now known as Tschipey Achtu 95. I have updated the site to reflect this current information. Several new issues have also been added.
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January 14th, 2012
An OAImages iPad App?
Some of those who know me personally, know that I have gone over to the "Dark Side" and have started using Apple products. I bought an iMac a couple of months ago and just recently got an iPad. My brother is trying to tell me that my Droid's days are numbered.
I really like my iPad and started day dreaming about an OAImages app for it. I have no idea how to go about writing this and it would take me into an entirely new area from what I know. It's not something that would happen easily or soon. Here's your chance to give feedback. What do you think about an OAImages app? What would you put in it? Do you have any thoughts on how it would be distributed or how much it would cost?
Please feel free to comment. Comments are moderated for those who have not successfully had a comment published on this blog before in order to control spam. I will do my best to approve comments as quickly as possible in order to facilitate a discussion.
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October 4th, 2011
Indian Summer and Summit Corps Patches
I have added special pages on this site for the 2011 Indian Summer and 2011 Summit Corps. I still have a few images to add but most of what I have images for is now on the site. Thanks for Rick Horne for most of these images.
To view these items, go to OA Images: National and Special Events Patches page and select either of these events from the "Other Specialties" drop down box.
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August 27th, 2011
Coming out of Hiding About April 1st
It's kind of odd to come out of hiding to post about a topic like this.
I'm hearing from some brothers that there have been gullible readers to this blog over the years. I would have thought it was obvious from the context of the posts, but the various posts made on this blog throughout the years that have appeared on APRIL FIRST are all satire. None of them are true. Read them and chuckle but please do not complain to your friendly OA National Committee members, Scout Executives, lodge advisers, or official website administrators about the "changes" that are "announced" in them.
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Aal-Pa-Tah 237, the 2008 Scout Show service patches
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Since 1998, Aal-Pa-Tah Lodge 237 has served their fellow Scouts at the Gulf Stream Council, literally, by running a booth that sells meals to the attendees. Patches have been made each year for the barbeque pork and fried turkey since that first year, with additional pieces for the staff of the event. This year continues the baseball theme that began in 2006, but this was the first year with a different patch for the pork and turkey*.
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