Work is proceeding. The decking is in place and we’re installing shingles today. The schedule is for completion the end of next week.
We have cut out a BSA emblem from plywood which CEF staff are painting for installation when the project is complete.
See previous Boy Scout Headquarters entry here.
This year is the 100 year anniversary of Scouting in America and as a tribute Culver Educational Foundation has contracted Easterday Construction Co., Inc. to build a new Boy Scout Headquarters in the Woodcraft Camp at Culver Academies. The structure is a scaled down version of a woodcraft camp cabin. It is a modified post and beam construction built nearly entirely out of cedar. The original cabins were designed to sit on piers so that they could be moved if necessary. There are historical pictures of the original cabin being moved from one location to another on campus.
Easterday Construction has been responsible for the construction of many projects at Culver Academies over the years and family legend has it that our founder, my great grandfather, Russell L. Easterday, began his construction career with James I. Barnes Construction on a project for the Culver Academies back in the 1920’s.
In recent years at the Culver Academies Woodcraft Camp we built the new Boys’ Showers, renovated both the old girls’ showers and the old boys’ showers, built the new Craft Pavilion and a new Counselor’s Cabin. All of these have had coordination issues due to accelerated time schedules, environmental preservation regarding site requirements, aesthetics necessary to fit the existing facilities and sensitivity to the safety, security and needs of the young children the camp serves.
On this project as well as the Counselor’s Cabin and Craft Pavilion pictured, we were assisted by Scearce Rudisel Architects with design issues and obtaining the State Plan Releases. Mary Ellen Rudisel Jordan and her staff have been helpful and responsive on these projects and the fact that she has a former Woodcraft Camper a Chipmunk from the last graduating class of Woodcraft Chipmunks on her staff hasn’t hurt!
From an essay by John W. Whitehead of The Rutherford Institute. The article can be found here.
We see the romanticized portraits of those who signed the Declaration of Independence and really don’t consider what they risked to bring us the liberties that we enjoy. They might well shudder with rage to see how easily we consider giving up those rights when it seems expedient to us.
Take a look at the excerpt (upper right) which lists some of the lessor known patriots who were signatory to the Declaration of Independence and the not so pleasant fates they met after signing the document that marked the birth of our nation. Some lost their lives, some lost the lives of their families and some lost fortunes, all of which they pledged to the cause of Independence.
As July 4th rolls around on the calendar, all Americans should be cognizant of the sacrifices of the past as well as the sacrifices of those currently serving in our military to protect the rights and liberties we enjoy. It did not end with declaring independence. No, our independence had to be forcibly taken and now, just as they did then, we need to cherish it and fight to maintain it.
The except in the captioned box is taken from an essay on the signers of the Declaration of Independence by Rush H. Limbaugh Jr., distributed by the Federalist Magazine.
We are about to start a project for The Remnant Trust in Winona Lake. This is a small remodeling project that has some extremely tight specifications due to the delicate materials that will be stored here. Humidity and temperature fluctuations will have to be kept to a minimum.
We are working with Scearce Rudisel Architects on this project and look forward to working with them and The Remnant Trust. We are pleased to have been selected for completion of this work.
