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RITTNER: Troy and the Boy Scouts — Part 2

Troy’s influence on the Boy Scouts doesn’t end with the fact that the first Scoutmaster in America was Troy’s Simeon F. Lester. The Boy Scout uniform so familiar across America was designed by Troy’s Charles M. Connelly. He also helped design the scout badge and various other marks and insignia now familiar in the scouting […] ....

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Stefano Liberti on food as a commodity and the countries paying the price

Award winning filmmaker and journalist Stefano Liberti, joins us for this episode of The Star Ingredient to talk about how globalisation and financialisation can pose a challenge to the worldwide food system. ....

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Boy Scouts, Detachable Collars, and a Troy Connection?


Don Rittner
Boy Scouts, Detachable Collars, and a Troy Connection?
By Don Rittner
on December 30, 2020 at 9:21 PM
 
By Don Rittner
Chances are everyone knows a Boy Scout or two. This youth building movement began in London back in 1908. It was brought to America shortly after by W. D. Boyce, an American newspaperman, who after being aided by a London scout thought it would a great program for kids in the US.
After returning to America in 1910 he joined up with Edward S. Stewart and Stanley D. Willis and incorporated the Boy Scouts of America on February 8 of that year. Boyce was encouraged to take it nationally by Edgar M. Robinson, a leader of the YMCA in New York City, and offered financial help. That year the Woodcraft Indians led by Ernest Thompson Seton, the Boy Scouts of the United States headed by Colonel Peter Bomus, and the National Scouts of America headed by Colonel William Verbeck were absorbed into the new Boy Scouts of Am ....

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