Portal:Scouting/Selected article/September

Burl Ives Ives won an Academy Award for Best Original Song, is an acclaimed singer and author, and had a long-standing relationship with the Boy Scouts of America. He was a Lone Scout before that group merged with the Boy Scouts of America. Ives received the BSA's Silver Buffalo Award, its highest honor. The certificate for the award is hanging on the wall of the Scouting Museum in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. Ives often performed at the quadrennial Boy Scouts of America jamboree, including the 1981 jamboree at Fort A.P. Hill in Virginia, where he shared the stage with the Oak Ridge Boys. He recorded many songs and talks about Scouting and teaching. Ives is also the narrator of a 28-minute film about the 1977 National Jamboree.