Spirit of Adventure Council

Headquarters

Woburn, MA

Location

Greater Boston Area

Country

United States

Founded

July 1, 2015

Founders

Boston Minuteman Council and Yankee Clipper Council

Membership

18,000+

Scout Executive

Chuck Eaton

Website
www.scoutspirit.org

The Spirit of Adventure Council is a regional council of the Boy Scouts of America. It serves the greater Boston, Massachusetts area.

History

The Yankee Clipper Council and Boston Minuteman Council merged on July 1, 2015. As part of this merger, New Hampshire towns of the former Yankee Clipper Council were transferred to Daniel Webster Council headquartered in Manchester.

Boston Minuteman Council

In 1993, the Boston Minuteman Council #227 was formed from the merger of:^[1]

Minuteman Council #240 (Stoneham, 1959–1993)
Greater Boston Council #227 (Boston, 1980–1993)

In 1959, the Minuteman Council (Stoneham, 1959–1993) was formed from a merger of:^[1]

Sachem Council #223 (Lexington, 1926–1959)
Fellsland Council #242 (Winchester, 1932–1959)
Quannopowitt Council #240 (Malden, 1993-1959)

The Cambridge Council #229 (Cambridge, 1919–2001) and their Kahagon Order of the Arrow Lodge #131 were merged into the Boston Minuteman Council in 2001.^[1]

Yankee Clipper Council #236

The council was formed from a merger of the North Essex Council, North Bay Council, and Lone Tree Council in 1993. The Greater Lowell Council merged with Yankee Clipper in 2000, choosing it over three adjacent councils. The Greater Lowell District formed the fifth spoke on the ship's wheel totem of the YCC council strip. The council operated two camps in its final years: Wah-Tut-Ca Scout Reservation, a Boy Scout camp, and Lone Tree Scout Reservation for Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts, after selling Camp Onway in 2007.

Organization

Egan Center

The council is divided into the following districts:

Flintlock District^[2] (includes the communities of Bedford, Burlington, Carlisle, Concord, Hanscom AFB, Lexington, Lincoln, North Reading, Reading, Stoneham, Wakefield, Winchester, and Woburn)
Sons of Liberty District^[3] (includes the communities of Arlington, Belmont, Cambridge, Charlestown, Chelsea, East Boston, Everett, Malden, Medford, Melrose, Revere, Somerville, Waltham and Watertown)
Great Blue Hill District^[4] (includes the communities of Allston, Back Bay, Beacon Hill, Brighton, Brookline, Dedham, Dorchester, Dover, Hyde Park, Islington, Jamaica Plain, Mattapan, Milton, Needham, Quincy, Roslindale, Roxbury, South Boston, West Roxbury, Westwood)
West Wind District^[5] (includes the communities of Andover, Billerica, Chelmsford, Dracut, Dunstable, Lawrence, Lowell, Tewksbury, Tyngsborough, Westford, and Wilmington)
The Northern Light District^[6] (includes the communities of Amesbury, Georgetown, Groveland, Haverhill, Ipswich, Merrimac, Methuen, Newbury, Newburyport, North Andover, Rowley, Salisbury, and West Newbury)
The Great Eastern District^[7] (includes the communities of Beverly, Boxford, Danvers, Essex, Gloucester, Hamilton, Lynn, Lynnfield, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Marblehead, Middleton, Nahant, Peabody, Rockport, Salem, Saugus, Swampscott, Topsfield, Wenham, and Winthrop)

Camps

New England Base Camp Pool

It has several camps:

New England Base Camp^[8] (formerly Camp Sayre), in the Blue Hills Reservation, Milton, Massachusetts
T.L. Storer Scout Reservation in Barnstead, New Hampshire (part of the Northern NeXus)
Parker Mountain Scout Reservation in Strafford, New Hampshire (part of the Northern NeXus)
Wah-Tut-Ca Scout Reservation in Northwood, New Hampshire (part of the Northern NeXus)
Lone Tree Scout Reservation in Kingston, New Hampshire

Pennacook Lodge, Order of the Arrow

Pennacook Lodge^[9] is the Order of the Arrow lodge chartered to the Spirit of Adventure Council, Boy Scouts of America. Established January 1, 2016, it was formed as a result of the merger between its two predecessor lodges: Moswetuset Lodge (Boston Minuteman Council) and Nanepashemet Lodge (Yankee Clipper Council).

The leadership structure of Pennacook Lodge follows "The Pennacook Plan". This plan breaks the lodge into various blocks (similar to departments in a retail store) and committees. The purpose of this plan is twofold: to divide the lodge into several parts to maximize our capabilities as a program, and to maximize opportunities for both youth and adults to get involved in the lodge.

As prescribed by the National Order of the Arrow Committee, all youth members are under the age of 21. Adults are 21+. Those who are 18–20 years of age are considered youth members for the purpose of voting in lodge business only. Otherwise, they are considered adults in the BSA program and must adhere to all BSA policies and standards just like any other adult in the program.

The mission of this Order of the Arrow Lodge is to fulfill its purpose as an integral part of the Boy Scouts of America and the Spirit of Adventure Council through positive youth leadership under the guidance of selected capable adults.

As part of Scouting's National Honor Society, our purpose is to:

Recognize those who best exemplify the Scout Oath and Law in their daily lives and through that recognition cause others to conduct themselves in a way that warrants similar recognition.
Promote camping, responsible outdoor adventure, and environmental stewardship as essential components of every Scout’s experience, in the unit, year-round, and in summer camp.
Develop leaders with the willingness, character, spirit and ability to advance the activities of their units, our Brotherhood, Scouting, and ultimately our nation.
Crystallize the Scout habit of helpfulness into a life purpose of leadership in cheerful service to others.

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