by David L. Witt | Mar 17, 2022 | Curator's Notes
Star badge, Boy Scouts of America, 1964 Short Misleading History of the Boy Scouts Here is the well known if incorrect short history of the Boy Scouts of America: The British general Robert Baden-Powell invented paramilitary Scouting out of whole cloth in 1908 with...
by David L. Witt | Feb 24, 2022 | Curator's Notes
“In days like these one can accept or assume no higher or better mission than that of peace messenger, a personal messenger of peace and understanding among the nations.” Ernest Thompson Seton, 1936, A Peace Mission to Europe Almost eighty-six years ago,...
by David L. Witt | Feb 8, 2022 | Guest Writers
Photograph of Edgar M. Robinson. 1931 Massasoit, Springfield College’s Yearbook. Courtesy of Springfield College, Archives and Special Collections In April 1910 the YMCA loaned one of its top executives, Edgar M. Robinson (1867-1951), to the newly formed Boy Scouts of...
by David L. Witt | Jan 31, 2022 | Lobo, Wolves & Wildlife Conservation
Seton canine sketch, undated Dear Lobo, It has been a year since I last wrote and 128 years since your untimely passing. A lot has happened since then but so little has changed. Don’t Pay Attention Human nature, for instance. You wouldn’t know about movies since they...
by David L. Witt | Jan 26, 2022 | Seton Essays
Thirteen-Striped Ground-Squirrel, Ernest Thompson Seton (This is an excerpt from Life-Histories of Northern Animals by Ernest Thompson Seton. Published in 1910, Seton chronicled the lives of 60 species in a massive two-volume work including ecological and behavioral...
