Just a reminder: Grady Eades (the VirtualBoxwell guy) will be wrapping up his spring book tour on the history of Boxwell. These are the final presentations this spring, so now’s your chance to come see the show! There will be a presentation on the camp’s history with books for sale (and signing) afterward.
Tuesday, May 31, 2022 at 5pm Gallatin Public Library Gallatin, TN
Thursday, June 2, 2022 at 7pm Linebaugh Public Library Murfreesboro, TN
Here’s a little local promotion from the Murfreesboro Voice:
In honor of Memorial Day, we thought we would try something a little different this week. This week’s post is in honor of all our staff friends and colleagues who are no longer with us.
Follow the link to see our list of staff who have passed. If there are names missing, please pass them on.
But more importantly, use the comments to share stories. Keeping the stories alive helps keep the individuals with us.
Take a moment this weekend and remember members of the service who are no longer with us. Take another moment and remember those staff who are no longer with us.
Just a reminder: Grady Eades (the VirtualBoxwell guy) will be wrapping up his spring book tour on the history of Boxwell. These are the final presentations this spring, so now’s your chance to come see the show! There will be a presentation on the camp’s history with books for sale (and signing) afterward.
Tuesday, May 31, 2022 at 5pm Gallatin Public Library Gallatin, TN
Thursday, June 2, 2022 at 7pm Linebaugh Public Library Murfreesboro, TN
Here’s a little local promotion from the Murfreesboro Voice:
If you’ve been around Boxwell for any amount of time, you’re probably acquainted with the fact that Camp Craig is in an almost constant state of revision. Program areas move, new sites are added.
For a long period of time, the Activity Yard was across the road from the Camp Office and straddled the graveled Lower Loop. There was usually a pioneering entrance into the area, which was cut out of Japanese hedge. If you entered down the lower loop, before you even reached Sites 2 or 3, you would have passed through the Activity Yard. It was a prime location.
Seen here is the Pioneering area of this earlier incarnation. This was last stop before the trails for campsites. The area was fenced of with Pioneering poles with cross tie seating inside. Hanging at the corner was a part of a railroad track, which was rung when it was time for sessions to end. In the center is Justin McAfee and to the right is new Pioneering instructor Ken Partridge. This was the summer of 1990.
Craig Pioneering area, June 1990. Justin McAfee and Ken Partridge are the staff members here.
FORMER STAFF! Camp is just a few weeks away and there is still a good deal to do to prepare. One of the rangers was recently injured, slowing the amount of work that can be completed in this critical period before summer camp.
Over the next two to three weeks, if you have time you can spare–a few hours, half a day, an afternoon, a full day, whatever–please come out to the reservation. You can mow. You can spray for ticks. You can do any number of other jobs that are needed to help get camp ready to go for summer 2022.
Contact with Jason Flannery with your availability and what you can do to help. Any little bit will help!
Jason Flannery 615-294-0865 jflannery@mtcbsa.org
Now is your chance to drive a tractor again. Be like Cory Younts!!
