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Sunday Morning
November 15, 2015
Well here is my proof that I've started a new "lark" as my wife said to me yesterday.  I was able to go through my newly organized GSA collection and came home with more than 50 needs.  How many of you can say you did that at the last Boy Scout TOR you attended?  What's more I found several collectors who were more than willing to help me fill in holes in my book and only charged me $2 each for the badges.  I can't say the same for filling in my tan narrows in the Boy Scout book.          
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The Girl Scout show was a lot of fun.  The fellowship of collectors visiting with old friends seemed very familiar to that which you see at our shows.  They even had a couple of seminars for young collectors - one of which I recorded and will be publishing this week on YouTube.  Even though I was a newbie everyone was very friendly.  I got many questions answered that I could not find on any website or in the guide.
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It was not a big topic of discussion but I thought you might appreciate this one.  When it comes to the "highest award" the GSA has bounced around over the years and one lady offered a very clear compliment for the Boy Scouts.  The Eagle has always required 21 merit badges (her words not mine) while the GSA kept changing both the name and requirements for it's highest award for high school age Scouts. Today it's called the Gold Award but it has also been 1st Class among others.
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The host of the show Becky Byrns had a wonderful uniform display at the front door unlike anything I've ever seen at a Boy Scout show.  She had about twenty full uniforms on short manequins that represented all of the GSA uniforms from the teens through 2000.  Each one had the hat, belt, sash, shirt and pants of that time period and was labeled.  I snapped pictures of them all.
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I just missed seeing some familiar faces at the show.  John Pleasants and Chris Jensen were there on Friday but not Saturday when I arrived.  There were collectors there from as far away as CA, CT, MI and PA.  I got the impression that GSA collector shows are few and far between.  I did not mention to anyone that just last weekend there were 4 Boy Scout shows running at different locations around the country.
So in all of this a few of you might be wondering where is my 11 year old daughter.  Well to be honest as of yet she has not caught the patch bug and didn't show any interest in tagging along with dad on this adventure.  Her passions are reading books, sports and video games so I'm not sure I've got the magic pill to make her interested.  She did like the idea of selling and making money when I took her to a TOR last year but I'm not sure that's the same thing as the collecting bug.  I still hold out hope but I'm sure I'm not the only one of you who has this dilemma of a child who shows no interest in the hobby you are passionate about. 
 
 
Your brother in the cloth,
 

Jason Spangler
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