Bring Out Your Stuff!
We'll be getting together on January 6th, 2007, from 9:00AM through 3:00PM at the church hall of Smith Mills Christian Congregational in Dartmouth for our third annual Camp Cachalot Alumni Association Gathering and Memorabilia Expo! Along with our usual bevy of activities, we'll have some very well-known members of the Scouting memorabilia trading community in New England on-hand to check out your goodies, so bring them along! Whether you want to figure out what that old camp patch or neckerchief is worth, browse through loads of Cachalot, Noquochoke, and Scouting memorabilia and photos, trade your extras with other folks at a Trade-o-ree, or just sit down for a meal and share memories with your fellow alumns, there'll be something for you at this year's Gathering! Our appraisers should add a little bit of that "Antiques Roadshow" feel to the proceedings. So crack open that old footlocker, dig out your own collection, and join us for a little post-holidays fun!
Also on tap for the day:
- Displays of Camp Cachalot and related Scouting memorabilia
- Slide and movie presentations of Camp-related photos, dating back to the 1940's
- Memorabilia collectors and traders from throughout the Northeast (and beyond!)
- A short gathering of the Alumni in attendance, to keep you up-to-date on the Association's goings-on
You can find full details at the bottom of this page. Alumni-specific activity begins with lunch at noon.
Our Appraisers
Manny Bagaço is the chairman for the Winter Gathering, and a member of the International Scouting Collectors Association (ISCA). He has been collecting scouting memorabilia for almost 30 years. Manny's specialty is local history, primarily memorabilia of the Greater Fall River (Massasoit Council), New Bedford (Cachalot Council later formed Moby Dick, Narragansett Council BSA), and specifically Camp Cachalot and Camp Noquochoke memorabilia. He is also the author of the new Collector's Corner column in the Cachaletter.
Manny has the premier Maine High Adventure Memorabilia collection in the country and is in the process of composing a collectors' guide for this specialty area.
Jonathan Groves is a member of ISCA, has been collecting for over 25 years and specializes in New England Order of the Arrow issues and New England Scout Camps. Jonathan has been a contributor to the ISCA Journal and Blue Book (guide to O.A. issue nation-wide). Along with being a regular contributor to the ISCA Journal and Blue Book, Jonathan has co-authored a pricing guide to Order of the Arrow issues.
Jonathan has an extensive collection of New England Order of the Arrow and a premier New England Scout Camps collection.
Mitch Reis (visit his website) is a member of ISCA and has been collecting since 1981. He specializes in National Issue, Boy Scout patches, medals, uniforms and insignia. Mitch is one of the country's leaders in collecting Boy Scout memorabilia.
He has researched and written the following four books:
- The Boy Scouts of America During WWI and WWII
- A Guide to Dating and Identifying BSA Badges Uniforms and Insignia Ð 3rd Edition
- The History of the Lone Scouts Through Memorabilia
- The History of the Connecticut Rivers Council BSA
Roy Weatherbee is a member of ISCA and has been collecting memorabilia for over 25 years. He specializes in New England O.A. Issues, Region One memorabilia and New England Boy Scout Camps.
Roy has been a regional editor for Blue Book since the first edition. A regular contributor to the ISCA Journal, Roy also serves as the Northeast Region vice-president for ISCA. Roy is also a distinguished member of The American Scouting Historical Society. Roy has the distinction of having the premier New England O.A. issues collection in the country.
Share Your Memories
We are especially interested in any old photos and slides of Cachalot and Noquochoke that you might have. If you have pictures, feel free to bring them with you – we plan to have a computer scanning station set up and staffed by a member of our History committee to scan in prints and slides. Our ability to scan things in will be limited by the time we have available, so if you are able to scan things in yourself, feel free to bring them along in electronic form (CD- or DVD- recordable, USB or Firewire drive – contact curator@cachalotalumni.org if you have any questions about the formats we can cope with.) The higher the resolution, the better.
Thanks to our members, we've already collected over 1,300 photos covering the 1940s right through to modern times, although we're still missing photos of many notable figures from the past, photos of the old Quonset Hut, and have very few photos from Camp Noquochoke in general.
Full Details
Tickets come in two varieties.
Tickets that include admission plus a hot and cold lunch buffet are $10 per person for members of the Alumni Association, or $15 per person for non-members. If you sign up for membership at the same time as purchasing tickets, tickets will be $5. These tickets must be purchased before January 4th, so we can make appropriate arrangements for food. Those with Family or Lifetime Association memberships pay the member rate for all members of their household. Signing up for those memberships entitles you to the discounted $5 rate for all household members as well.
"Admission only" tickets are $5 per person, and are available up to and including the day of the event.
Youth Scouts (under 18) who attend in uniform (and children under Scouting age) will be admitted free of charge.
Tickets will be available online, through the Narragansett Council Office and through the Council Scout shops. You may also reserve tickets through the mail (we'll hold them at the door for you) by sending a check for the cost of the tickets to:
Camp Cachalot Alumni Association 2007 Show
c/o Narragansett Council, BSA
P. O. Box 14777
Providence, RI 02914
Checks should be made payable to "Narragansett Council BSA" with a memo of "Camp Cachalot Alumni Association."
We look forward to seeing you (again)!
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