Bob Terry kindly sent me a great scan of a rare 1989 Old Dominion SA-3 CSP, now online here.

Want to check out a new web site for Scout Patch collectors that I'm working on? Point your browser to: http://start.at/patchcamp/ for a sneak preview.

C.J. also provided a scan for the 1986 Lodge 463 Christmas Banquet that I've added to the site, too.

More to come as I get time, including Peninsula Council and Kecoughtan Lodge hat pins.

I recently won an eBay auction for a Peninsula Council Jamboree Shoulder Patch I have never seen before - a 1989 JSP which has a medium blue border and background (like the regular s5 issue) rather than the dark blue border version which I have. I would like to know more about this issue - was it a limited contingent issue or perhaps a leader version? If you can provide any information please send me an email.

I still need a Peninsula Council RWS (red and white strip) - if you have a spare you are willing to trade or accept American money for, please let me know!

Also, for the curious, I came across a patch design for a Kecoughtan Lodge 25th anniversary patch that I submitted to the Lodge many moons ago. Needless to say, it was never used, but you can look at my sketch here.

My new favorite search engine is anything but Yahoo, where this site does not appear at all when you do a search for "Kecoughtan Lodge."

I felt a little better after querying Google, Lycos, Excite, HotBot, AltaVista, FAST Search, Go.com, GoTo, iWon, LookSmart , MSN Search, NBCi (formerly Snap), Northern Light, WebTop, and About.com, and discovering that a page from this site ranked number one in the results for every one of these services. You can try it yourself by clicking on any of the names above which will automatically search for Kecoughtan Lodge.

Of course, my real favorite search engine is Sherlock.

Added a bit of information about the origin of the name of Camp Chickahominy to the Council Camps page.

The Kecoughtan Lodge Chenilles page is now linked from the Standard Pennant Company web site. You might be interested to know that John Griffiths, one of the owners of SPC, is involved with Groundhog Day events in Punxsutawney, PA. Get the details here.

During their 45 year history, Kecoughtan Lodge issued four chenille patches, all produced by the Standard Pennant Company. If you have one for trade or sale, let me know - I need them all!

I am expecting many 463 pins from George Jennings to arrive any day now and hope to have them scanned quickly to have images here of all of the 463 hat pins which were issued during Kecoughtan Lodge's history. If you are looking for hat pins, George is the guy to check with - he has an awesome inventory.

The new Blue Book is an outstanding reference and I hope to have all Lodge references on my site updated to it (rather than the '98 edition which I currently list) soon. I plan to also keep listings for Al Hoogeveen's Arapaho reference here as well.

A small editorial remark - the Blue Book on CDROM is an excellent resource and I recommend it highly. Rusty Van Reeves has done an amazing amount of work to produce this and has generously shared it with the Scout Collecting hobby. I agreed to allow many images from this site to be included on this CD (and was kindly commended in their contributor "Hall of Fame").

My only disappointment is that this vital reference is Windows only. If you have a Macintosh computer you are out of luck unless you purchase Windows emulation software (like Connectix' Virtual PC) or install one of the OrangeMicro PC cards with a Wintel compatible processor in your Mac.

I have traded a few emails with Rusty about this and he and the other people involved with this project are sympathetic to my sentiments. However, the development environment for this project (a program called Minicat) does not have a Mac-compatible viewer, and when I last inquired directly to them last year, they had no plans to create one. It would simply be too much work to begin the Blue Book on CDROM from square one with different software which is compatible on multiple platforms.

I have suggested importing the data from Blue Book on CDROM into a database like FileMaker Pro which has versions compatible for both Macintosh and Windows and has a licensable runtime engine so that people who buy the CD don't have to own a copy of FileMaker Pro to open it. The Blue Book on CDROM folks kindly advised me they would eagerly share the information they have compiled if I can provide the Mac-compatible framework for it.

So until I can round up some FileMaker Pro whiz kids to build a runtime version of Blue Book on CDROM (cheaply!) we Mac users are left in the cold unless we want to pony up the cash to buy the emulation software to run it. I plan to do some testing and have an article written soon about my experiences as a Macintosh-loving patch collector who wants to use resources like Blue Book on CDROM and Arapaho 2000 on Disk which are Windows only. If you have opinions or experiences and would like to share them, please send them to me at spanky@mac.com.

David Edmonson of Lodge 333 kindly allowed me to borrow his 463 HP4 hat pin to scan for inclusion on this site. The HP4 issue is the round pin which features the design of the Pamunkey Chapter backpatch.

I would like very much to get scan of the 463-L1 (leather flap) and also of the two known 463 "fakes" - the ZC1 (fake acorn-shaped chenille patch with gray instead of tan lettering) and ZS1 (computer designed copy of the S10 Brotherhood flap). If you can help out, please let me know!

I've had a good response to my recent plea on Patch-L for 463 hat pins and hope to have scans of all of them available here soon. Watch this page for news about hat pin image additions!

Subject: Lodge 463 hat pins
Date: 7/6/00 11:32 PM
To: Patch-L Recipients, PATCH-L@LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU

Hi Fellow Collectors,

I was pleased to see that the counter for my humble web site devoted to Emblems and History of Kecoughtan Lodge 463 (which expanded to include Chanco 483, Wahunsenakah 333, their parent councils - Peninsula, Old Dominion, and Colonial Virginia, as well as Area III-C, Sections SE-1, SE-8, and SR-7/7A) rolled over the 1000th visitor this past 4th of July weekend.

If you haven't had a chance to stop by, or if it's been awhile, I hope you will take a moment to have another look around: http://welcome.to/kecoughtan/

I would really like to fill in some missing scans and hope that some of you pin collectors might be able to help.

Specifically, I need scans of four pins for my web site to illustrate all ten pins which were issued by Kecoughtan Lodge. If you happen to have one of these in your collection and could take a moment to send me an image I would be very grateful:

HP4 - round, design of Pamunkey Chapter backpatch
HP8 - flap shaped, design of 463s16 (ships with '89 Jamboree lettering)
HP9 - flap shaped, "Mattaponi Chapter," '89 Jamboree
HP10 - acorn shaped with red arrow, plastic coated

Of course, if you are willing to part with any of these, I would love to trade or buy.

Thanks!

Glenn Chase
NSCS #1383, ASTA #919

On the good news front, the visitor counter on this site exceeded 1,000 over the July 4 weekend!

Kecoughtan 463 Patch Scans Needed:

463 Activity Patches

57 Fellowship (w/349)
66 Fall Fellowship
69 Winter Ordeal
70 Fall Fellowship
74 Summer Ordeal
75 Christmas Banquet
76 Spring Ordeal
76 Summer Ordeal
78 Summer Ordeal
79 Spring Ordeal
79 Summer Ordeal
80 Winter Ordeal
80 Spring Ordeal
80 Annual Banquet
81 Winter Ordeal
86 Christmas Banquet
89 Christmas Banquet
91 40th Anniv. Fellowship (Red Border)
91 40th Anniv. Fellowship (Dark Yellow Border)
91 40th Anniv. Fellowship (Light Blue Border)
91 40th Vigil Rededication
92 NOAC
94 Summer Ordeal
95 Summer Ordeal

463 Flaps

S1b (black base material, black back)
S30b (border ends top right, DYL lockstitch)

463 X (Other) Issues

X1 (Acorn shape, brown felt, White "W", on neckerchief)
X10 (Brown border Hexagon, LGR "Honor Member," 2 FDL, PB, 1986)

463 Hat Pins

HP3 - Flap shaped, design of S6, FDL
HP4 - Round, design of Pamunkey Chapter backpatch
HP5 - Triangle, design of Mattaponi Chapter backpatch
HP8 - Flap shaped, design of S16, FDL
HP9 - Flap shaped, "Mattaponi Chapter," Jamboree '89, FDL
HP10 - Acorn with RED Arrow, plastic coated

Chanco 483 Patch Scans Needed:

483 Flaps

S2 - 20th Anniversary (1972), White border

483 X (Other) Issues

X4 - Oval, 15th Anniversary (1987)
P2 - Quarter Circle, with FDL, issued on neckerchief
P3 - Quarter Circle, with FDL, computer designed, on neckerchief

483 Jacket Issues

J1 - large keyhole, DYL FDL (1978)
J2b - 175mm round, 2 FDL's, LBR face, computer designed (1995)
YC1 - Diamond, Native American & Deer, SPC Chenille Type 11

Area III-C Patch Scans Needed:

1953 Conclave (Host Lodge 349)
1954 Conclave (Host Lodge 276)
1956 Conclave (Host Lodge 470)
1957 Conclave (Host Lodge 456)
1959 Conclave (Host Lodge 3)
1960 Conclave (Host Lodge 161)

SE-1 Patch Scans Needed:

1975 Indian Seminar (Host Lodge 463)

Old Dominion Area Council Patch Scans Needed:

Any CSP issued with "Trained" or "Training Staff" on it

I am working on code which will make a new window open up in your browser with the picture of the patch in it when you click on a link to view it. This will allow you to still see the information in the listings page without having to click your browser's back button. Opening a new window is easy enough but I don't want it to be any larger than it has to be (just the size of the patch image).

• January 1, 2000 through April 30, 2000
• July 28 through October 31, 1999
• November 2 through December 9, 1999

I am deeply indebted to the late Dr. Ron Godby of Yorktown, VA for his authoritative compilation of Order of the Arrow Lodge issues for the entire Commonwealth of Virginia. Dr. Godby's research was the basis for the Kecoughtan Lodge 463 listings in the first edition of the Blue Book Standard Order of the Arrow Insignia Catalog, published in 1996. This site is dedicated to Dr. Godby and the late E. Bailey Tudder, longtime Lodge Advisor for Kecoughtan 463 whose dedication to cheerful service was exceeded by no one.

On the Site Credits page I have tried to list the names of people who have been instrumental in helping me in my effort to provide an online reference of the history of Kecoughtan Lodge and every emblem that it issued. If you helped out and aren't mentioned, please forgive my accidental omission and tell me so that I can correct it.