We are getting into the final stretch leading up to the Midwest Tradefest. I’m getting pretty excited!
For those that don’t know about it, the Midwest Tradefest is a Boy Scout Patch Trade O Ree held in Madison, Wisconsin. This year it is on Saturday, March 29, 2008 at Immaculate Heart of Mary School. The hours are 9am – 3pm. Admission is free, we do ask that you wear your Boy Scout Uniform. Snacks and lunch will be available for purchase.
This year we are also offering Collections Merit Badge from 10am – 12pm. It was being published as being taught by a former dynamic camp staffer, but its really just me. It should be a good time, I actually committed to teaching the badge without looking at the requirements in detail. It could be interesting depending on the variety of collections that show up but I should be able to pull it off. I’m pretty good at researching this kind of stuff, plus I’ll have my laptop and internet card ready to go just in case. So far I’ve heard of 4 Scouts that will be there, and that is without requesting that they register.
I still have a lot of work to do before Saturday:
- Finish the Collections Merit Badge Presentation
- Find a way to display my Glacier’s Edge CSP collection. Right now its in two boxware cases but I want something I can put on an easel and get eye level. Since this is a fairly new Council I want to make sure folks are educated on all the issues, and I have the most complete collection. I’m missing one CSP from the Council, hopefully I will be able to find it at this event! It slipped through my hands once, but not again!
- Lookup prices for all the OA flaps I want to liquidate. I have a large number of flaps that I want to convert to CSPs or cash, since I’m not collecting random Flaps anymore. I plan on trading them here, then I’ll put whats left on eBay.
- Label the patches in my Four Lakecs CSP collection. This is also one of the more complete collections of Four Lakes Council issues. I want to try and make sure that I am displaying them in the correct chronological order. In order to facilitate this, I need to make it easy for people to fill in missing dates on some of the issues. I can’t just use the CSP Guide since they don’t list all issues, and some are listed in the wrong order for sure.
- Make up some business cards. Have to be able to exchange contact information easily.
- Go through my Ed Bryant Scout Reservation, Camp Castle Rock, and Camp Tichora collections and determine the needs I should be looking for.
I know I won’t get it all done, but hopefully I get most of them done.
I really enjoy this TOR along with the Milwaukee TOR since my collection has become very localized.
If you are in the area, you should check it out!
