Motor boating on Lake Vough is awesome.
Good Merit Badge instruction this year.
We had 5 Scouts that went through the new Dan Beard program and they all loved it.
The waterfront is a busy place.
Campsite 6 is a great place to stay.
Ready for supper.
Anticipating another great meal.
Let's go eat!
Dining Hall staff can have fun too.
Flash light tag was played every night.
Breakfast of champions.
Troop 12 can definitely swim.
Glen Felty clears our trail to the dining hall. Thanks!
Sailing was popular again this year.
10 Scouts and 3 leaders from Pikeville this year.
Sitting around your own fire is a big part of summer camp.
Checked in and ready to begin.
Swim checks.
Will Hogg and Aaron Shepherd from Troop 12 are on Staff again this year.
Late night tooth brushing.
Don Combs received the William T. Hornaday Silver medal tonight for excellence in conservation, in front of a packed Stamler Dining Hall at Camp McKee. It was the longest standing ovation I've ever seen at Camp.
Digging around a bit tonight and I found a couple of old custom neckerchiefs. This 1985 one was a provisional week that included some High Adventure trips. We stayed up in Campsite #1 and had a great time!
This one was from a Junior Leader Training weekend. Johnnie Ross was the SM and I was the Assistant. I remember that we got some mortician's wax and faked an accident in the old Dining Hall, and 2 kids actually passed out. Too real of a first aid drill!
Friday night patch and merchandise sales were good.
A few familiar faces are back at Camp again this year.
2 expert tent setter uppers!
A lot of cool new stuff to buy at McKee this year.
It was a beautiful weekend.
A sleepy weekend for some.
23 new members were inducted.
A ceremonious occasion for all.
Kawida is getting pretty good at cheerful service. Thanks to all!
Way back in the early 80's, while I was working on Staff up at the Maine National High Adventure Base, I collected a bunch of their stuff. I traded all of it to some guy in Massachusetts for a lot of National Jamboree stuff and some very old Scout knifes. It was a good trade for me and him, at the time.
You don't see these everyday!
Mark, Michael, Matthew, Martin, and Marlin:
It is with deep regret that I have just read the “Kentucky Standard’s” online edition and have learned about your father’s death. Mr. Barnes was truly a great influence in my life to say the least.
Those Scouting days back in the 1970’s with Troop 142 made a huge impact in my life. Being an Eagle Scout at the American Legion Post was something back then.
It made me cry, when the obituary stated that: He was the founding Scoutmaster of Boy Scout Troop #142 of Bardstown. Indeed he was, and I understand that it still continues strong today at the
Myself, I reside in
Your father may be gone in body, but his influence and spirit, carries on still today and will so, long into the future.
I can still hear his voice, every time I take a bunch of kids camping, and I tell them all the great stories about “My Old Scoutmaster”, Wayne Barnes and Troop 142.
Yours in Scouting,
Barry Goff
