New York OA Trader

John Pannell posted a link to Arrow Corps 5 patches on his blog.  At this point in time, there are no patches pictured from New York OA Lodges, nor am I aware of any NY lodges planning to issue patches for that event.

Does anyone know if any of the New York State OA Lodges are planning to or have issued  patches for Arrow Corps 5?

Please send information and/or images to nyoatrader@nyoatrader.com

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John Pannell has an important post on a new decision, fresh from National to abolish Lodge names.

Read it now!!

Updated: Please note the date of this posting.

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“You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”
Abraham Lincoln

John Pannell has advised that both his main site, OA Images and his OA Images Blog are down. He had reported that he was experiencing some server issues, but that is not the only problem.

He has posted a static page with the following information :

Yes, this site is completely offline except for this temporary page. OAImages.com was hit by hackers. While they did no damage to the site or its data, they did compromise the server’s security. Specifically, these overgrown imps installed software called “John The Ripper” which is used to crack passwords on other servers.

While we restore the server’s operating system and the reload all the other various programs and files, this site will remain offline. We hope to be back again in a few days.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

If we have any further updates, we will pass them on.

Update from John:

2/20/2008 12:45pm: www.oaimages.com, as a domain, is up again. Nothing works yet, but at least you can see the domain again without going here. Further updates will be posted there or in the blog (once it’s back up).

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The trouble with weather forecasting is that it’s right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it.

Patrick Young

No its not the modern version of Tinkers to Evers to Chance, nor is it the members of your favorite band.  It is the names of three embroidery companies which made hundreds of the classic OA flaps in the 1950’s and 1960’s.  Each of these companies,  Lion Brothers (LB), The Moritz Embroidery Works (MTZ), and the Geer Company (GER), had their own distinctive shape.

If you have ever wondered about the Blue Book abbrieviations (MTZ, GER, and LB); John Pannell has written a post describing (and showing) these three flap stlyes.  Check it out.

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In Mexico we have a word for sushi: Bait.

Jose Simon

John Pannell has posted on his blog about one of the unfinished projects  on his main site, the Internet Guide to OA Insignia. In this case Lodge Anniversary Issues.

… have been giving some needed attention to one unfinished segment of the site over the past few days, the lodge anniversaries section on the National & Special Events Patches page.  

There is no consistent way that lodge anniversaries are denoted in Blue Book.  I can search for phrases like “NNth Anniversary”, but that doesn’t find everything.  Even so there is still much to do.  It takes a lot of busy work to manually sort through listings and add a key for each significant anniversary into the databases that power this site. 

I started with 5th anniversary issues and worked upwards in five year increments.  Sorry, guys.   While Awaxaawe Awachia’s first anniversaryor Papago’s 39 1/4th anniversaryflaps might be interesting curiosities, those anniveraries are not significant enough to merit their own pages!

I guess this means that John won’t be devoteing a page to Shu Shu Gah Lodge’s 33rd Anniversary R3. 

Seriously if you can help John out with any missing items it only makes his site (and its usefulness to us all) stronger.

I had recently written about Matt Kirkland adding a flurry of new posts to his blog, The Black Eagle Trader.  He has now added writing about 3 other lodges he collects, Moswetuset Lodge #052, Chickasah Lodge #406, Ahoalan-Nachpikin Lodge #558 to the scope of his blog.  His most recent post is about new issues from Ahoalan-Nachpikin Lodge #558.  Check it out.

If any knows of other Patch Collecting Blogs, I’d be interested in hearing about them.

Ran across a new (well new to me) Scouting and Patch Collecting Blog by Barry Goff called Scouting in the Hills. While Barry says that “I just drive the van,” his profile includes the following:

Blue Grass Council #204, Kawida Lodge #480, Eagle Scout 1976, High Adventure: Philmont 1978, Maine High Adventure Area STAFF 1982, 1983, Sea Base 2007. National Jamborees: 1981 Assistant Scoutmaster, 1985 Commissary Staff, 2005 Assistant Scoutmaster. World Jamboree: 2007 [England] Assistant Scoutmaster. Order of the Arrow: Ordeal 1978, Brotherhood 1979, Vigil 2006, NOAC 1983, 2006. Training: Wood Badge EC 336X with Green Bar Bill Hillcourt, Powder Horn, Kodiak CDC.

If your interested in Kawida Lodge #480 or other lodges from that area check it out.