Pitch Your Tent at the Scout Night at the Bluefish on June 14!
You've had an awesome year with your den or pack and now programs are winding down for the season. Before the book bags are tucked away and kids head off to day camp programs, there's one last activity for the entire family that will cap off a great year of Scouting.
Take your family, den or Pack to the Connecticut Yankee Council's Scout Night at the Bluefish on Saturday, June 14. Bring dad along too so you can celebrate Father's Day weekend. It's also a great way to introduce new boys from spring recruiting into Scouting. (Incoming first graders earn a free ticket just for joining!)
The game is a favorite for thousands of Cub Scouts and features an always entertaining game of baseball, an on-field parade, movie on the jumbotron and a campout on the outfield. We can't promise you'll get a lot of sleep, but you'll leave with a lot of smiles and memories.
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One hundred years ago on Aug. 1, Arthur Eldred, a 17-year-old Boy Scout from Long Island, became the first person to earn the Eagle Scout rank. Eldred, tall, quiet and with a shock of dark hair, had joined scouting largely at the behest of his widowed mother, who hoped it would give some structure to his life. Yet as Eagle Scouts would continue to do throughout the next century, Eldred caught the scouting world by surprise. He was the first of an extraordinary new cohort of young men who were to prove very different from the classic 13-year-old Boy Scout in short pants.
