If everything goes according to plan, in a few weeks, a little Michigan-32-foot motor houses traveling through America will enter the World Scout Museum in Charleston, Western Virginia, and will be an exhibit.
But if you want to see it now, you can.
This weekend, the RV will participate in the State Fair – along with various baking competitions, livestock competitions, musical acts, butter sculptures and pig racing – in the suburban collection “Showplace” in Novi.
The State Fair will take place during September 1st.
2009 The RV used a year’s journey to visit scout centers during the 100th annual celebration of scouts just before it was to be donated to the scout car park on Friday, 2025. March 7
“It’s a scout story,” said Frank Mallon, now 82-year-old retired army colonel Lieutenant and Scout professional who arranged for him to go to the museum.
Mallon was the idea of organizing a trip after a year of a trip, which he called the Centenary of Values, a year before Boy Scouts.
The motor houses are slightly crushed. It contains some depressions and disappearances, memories of minor failures on travel through America when they drove from the district to the area to meet scouts.
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Mallon said he still needed about $ 10,000 victims to fully update the RV until he was donated. According to him, the RV still has a little life – and will be properly used, especially in the village of Western Virginia.
It will act as an exhibit, but also a rotating mini museum that can be taken to schools and other places to promote scouts and its long -term values for children.
From left: artist Bill Morrison, Frank Mallon and Doctor Michael Neshewat, laughs and talk to the parking lot in Southgate, 2025. On Friday, March 7, inspecting the Boy Scouts Scout murals, which Morrison created by the RV, a poster that visited the Boys’ Scout Centers during the 100th Debt Festival.
For adults, it will also be a reminder of their own scout days.
Boys have changed a lot over the age of 115. The girls are now allowed to join, and now it is called scouting America, but Mallon said its service -oriented mission and the values they encourage are the same.
After all, every scout still undertakes to try to be something that is “reliable, loyal, helpful, friendly, polite, pleasant, obedient, cheerful, frugal, bold, clean and respectful.”
Scouts, Mallon said, formed it as youth. He became an eagle scout. His two sons – now adults, with their families – have also done. And he hopes his grandchildren will become an eagle scout.
Mallon – as a scout professional – said he also led the military who turned boys into men who are now using leadership skills that he learned to influence others.
The 7,000 square feet of the World Scout Museum, which settles as “the largest scout memorial collection in the world”, includes more than 200,000 scouts from the scout group in more than 150 countries.
The museum is also not far from the Summit Bechtel Reserve, the 10,000 -acres scout training and adventure center attended by national and international youth events.
There, visitors can see RV.
From the left: Frank Mallon, the new RV caretaker of this 32 -foot -long RV, listens to the 82 -year -old Mauri Marshall of Dearborn Heights, talks to him about the electric pocket created by the cables in the parking lot in Southgate Southgate on Friday, 2025. March 7
And it is suitable for the museum to organize an exhibit from Michigan, one of the most famous scouts of the state, Gerald Ford, who, as president, has been accused of “too many scout boys”.
However, Ford said scout values would be a compass for his leadership.
The idea of Mallon that the RV goes to the Scout Museum – the place where it will be maintained and will have life outside the trip – is also gratifying, though he thinks it will admit it will be an emotional separation.
“It’s going to be a sad day,” he said Wednesday, sitting RV with each other, 83 -year -old Marshal of Dearborn Heights, who joined his trip to various scout areas. “But it will be happy too.”
Contact Frank Witsil: 313-222-5022 or [email protected].
To contribute
The “Back to the Road 2025” project aims to collect $ 25,000 victims to renew the RV, which went to Scout Councils through America and will go to the museum. Give: https://www.gofundme.com/f/back-ton-oad-again-2025
This article initially appeared at Detroit Free Press: Boy Scout Motor Home, which will be on display at the World Scout Museum