Knowing my love for manuscripts and historical documents, I felt sure that I would enjoy participating in the Archives Group here in the Virginia Skyline Council. The group manages a collection (pdf) of historical uniforms, badges and other insignia, and artifacts from troops, service units, and camps.

At this first meeting, we helped assemble a display on the history of Girl Scouting for the Museum of Culpeper History. The display is to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the council, so the collection we assembled included uniforms, badges, and handbooks from 1963. We also discussed adding recruitment information to the display, so that any family that comes through the museum and needs a local contact will be able to find out how to help their girls join. We created a hands-on activity, where museum visitors work to match badge requirements to badges using intuition and the handbooks. If you need a tip, that’s the Dogs and Cats Badge pictured.  Hope that we get to see some photos of the final display from the fine folks in Culpeper.

We also inventoried the boxes of Junior and Cadette badges before returning them to the storage closet and having lunch. The next meeting is scheduled for February 27.