Troop 301

On November 4th, 5th and 6th, the Benjamin Tallmadge district held their annual WEBELOS WOODS at Baiting Hollow Scout Camp.

This event is much like a Scout Camporee but designed for Cub Scouts to get a taste of what Boy Scouting is all about.

This year Troop 301 was assigned the PIONEERING station under the leadership of Assistant Scoutmaster (and former Troop 301 Scoutmaster) David Palmer.

Mr. Palmer went out to Baiting Hollow on Friday and with the help of friend Mr. Ryan, built an awsome Monkey Bridge.

Scouts Grant H., Dean B, , James B. and Erik S. arrived Saturday morning and added to the Pioneering displays in time for the station opening at 9:30 am.

More than 1,000 crossings of the bridge were made during the day while Grant taught knots to Cubs with Dean helping with the one-handed bowline from time to time.

It was a long day for all of us spotting cub scouts as they crossed but we all took a turn on the bridge as well.

Special thanks to Mr. Palmer for doing this for the scouts as the day seemed to be a big success for the Cubs.

At the November 10th Troop meeting the scouts learned US Flag Code and how to properly display and fold a flag.

On November 11th, the Troop honored our Veteran’s by marching in the parade.

Next, the troop headed to the grounds of the Smithtown Historic Society for our annual turkey cookout for our families and the local Webelos.

Saturday November 12th started with scouts making breakfast while others assembled the car port.

Then they moved to to Pioneering and building a Chippewa Cooking Table for cooking sweet potatoes.

Otheres worked on a welcome entryway…

Still more worked on a Monkey Bridge for the WEBELOS to play on when they came for dinner.

All had to play on the finished product.

Meanwhile, the preparation for the turkeys had begun.

In the dutch ovens was corn bread

 Lots of green beans the hard way too.

Then it was time to eat and speak with new friends and old ones because the turkeys and potatoes were done!

 We closed the evening with a flag retirement.

A worn campout flag was put to rest properly. The honor guard brought in the folded flag.

The flag was displayed to all and then properly refolded….

….as the boys read the history of this flag and why it should be honored this way.

The flag was then place in the dedicated fire create just for this event.

The troop watched in silence as the flag was consumed…

In the morning, the grommets were recovered and the ashes of the flag removed.

 The ashed were brought to a remote area of the grounds where they were buried.

Another proud American Flag properly put to rest.