Our Scout Troop has been working on the Scouting Heritage Merit Badge at our scout meetings in September 2023.  It has been very interesting to see how the scouting program was created by Baden Powell in England and how William Boyce brought the scouting program to the United States by a scout doing a good  deed. We also learned that many of the games we play today were at the beginning.  This was very interesting to me. We also learned about the National Scout Museum located in New Mexico at the Philmont Scout Reservation.

The requirement I liked the most was when we had Andy Dubill as a guest at our scout meeting. Mr. Dubill brought a small portion of his scouting memorabilia collection. He had a really neat collection. He had several scout uniforms that he shared with us. He had a scout uniform that dated back to 1912 which he allowed Liam in our scout troop to wear. It was really cool. Looking at all Mr. Dubill’s scouting stuff has made me want to start my own collection. The other item that was interesting to me was that we still do many of the items to earn our ranks that the scouts did back in 1910.