Camping at Sherando Lake, 1951

This week I have been looking through boxes of scrapbooks, binders, and photo albums donated to the Nation’s Capital archives by the family of Jean Boyer Porter. Jean joined the District of Columbia Girl Scouts in the mid-1930s and stayed active for the next 70 years. She also apparently rarely threw anything away. I’ve found…

Ann Robertson

August 26, 2016

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This week I have been looking through boxes of scrapbooks, binders, and photo albums donated to the Nation’s Capital archives by the family of Jean Boyer Porter.

Jean joined the District of Columbia Girl Scouts in the mid-1930s and stayed active for the next 70 years. She also apparently rarely threw anything away. I’ve found kaper charts and shopping lists going back to the mid-1930s.

My favorite (so far) is this trip to Sherando Lake in Virginia, August 4-12, 1951. Troop scribe Nancy Brown documented this weekend:

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Fortunately the written account explains that the Senior Girl Scouts found a group of Boy Scouts camping nearby. Guess that’s not Girl Scouts swimming topless in the Sunday August 5 picture!

sherando lake log 1951 page 10

sherando lake log 1951 page 11

3 responses to “Camping at Sherando Lake, 1951”

Terri Mattison

August 27, 2016 at 10:02 am

Delightful! I wish all this was prepared in book form. It’s something I would buy on Amazon!

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Michael McCaughan

March 10, 2020 at 7:04 am

Greetings! I’m actually a Boy Scouting historian and my council operated a camp there in the 50s. As you’ve digitized the record already, is there any chance I could talk you out of the hard copy? I’d love to have something like this to be able to talk a bit about the camp, and would of course be happy to make a donation to your council/effort in exchange for it. Just let me know! Thanks so much!

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1. Ann Robertson
  
  March 11, 2020 at 9:30 am
  
  Wow. No.
  
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