Centennial Display - Fair Haven Rest Area

By Kevin Anderson, Scoutmaster Troop 218

I travel through the Fair Haven rest area as part of my weekly job schedule, so I've gotten to know the people that work there fairly well, stopping in for a coffee as I pass through. Each month there is a display in the window as you go into the visitors center, so I asked if they had any openings and would they be interested in a historic display in honor of the Boy Scouts 100th anniversary.

They gave us the month of April and I put together a display of a real old  jacket and Campaign from the late teens and a metal button VT shirt from the 30's another shirt  from troop 218 Windsor from the seventies complete with the red piped pants. For diversity sake I threw  a random cub scout uniform from the thirties. A bunch of old cub books,I added a world scout flag and green mountain banner to the background and a few old items "spilling from a 50's era backpack. A collection of handbooks from the twenties and fifties and sixties as well as our more recent, the OA sash and beaded hat band is from the sixties and the mugs represent our camps and council. I added an old first aid kit and a sign announcing the centennial and identifying the display.

All in all it was quiet fun to go though some old stuff i've picked up over the years and put it out. I know from talking with the state folks that it was well received and Appreciated.

How are you celebrating our Centennial?