The Ideal Scout LbNA #70583
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Add Location| Owner: | shooting starz  |
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| Plant date: | Oct 1, 2016 |
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| City: | Milwaukee |
| County: | Milwaukee |
| State: | Wisconsin |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | Angel Winks |
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| Last found: | Aug 15, 2019 |
| Status: | FFFF |
| Last edited: | Oct 1, 2016 |
“The Ideal Scout,” also known as The Boy Scout, is the most famous work by Canadian sculptor R. Tait McKenzie. McKenzie sat on the executive board of the Boy Scouts organization in Philadelphia for more than 20 years. Asked to produce a figure of "an ideal scout," the sculptor chose several young scouts to model in uniform. In 1915, he gave the executive board an 18-inch bronze figure, together with rights to the royalties resulting from sales of copies.
The original life-sized statue of McKenzie's work was unveiled at Philadelphia's Cradle of Liberty Council on June 12, 1937. It stood in front if the council building at 22nd and Winter Streets in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from 1937 to 2013.
Today replicas of the statue can be found at Boy Scouts of America councils across the United States, and we are fortunate here in Milwaukee to have one of these statues on public display!
To see our statue of “The Ideal Scout”, find your way to The Walter and Olive Stiemke Scout Service Center in Milwaukee. The center is also known as the Milwaukee Scout Shop. The center and shop serve the Three Harbors Council, which refers to the three major port cities of Milwaukee, Racine, and Kenosha.
Greeting you on the west side of the building, at the entrance, is the statue. Please take a moment to admire this work of art. When asked about the figure, McKenzie said that the boy's uncovered head denoted reverence, obedience to authority, and discipline. The hatchet held by the scout is a symbol of truthfulness and the hope it would never be unsheathed for wanton destruction, but "applied unceasingly to the neck of treachery, treason, cowardice, discourtesy, dishonesty, and dirt." The statue before you was a gift from the employees of Gammex Inc. to the Boy Scouts in June of 1985 to commemorate the building of this new Milwaukee Scout center.
To find the Letterbox, make your way inside. The office is also home to the Scout Heritage Museum- the museum has limited hours, but you can view it by appointment, and there is an interesting display of Scout memorabilia just outside the Museum. The shop has lots of great outdoor gear and scouting equipment, and is a great place to find a compass, however - you won’t need one to find this letterbox! Simply go up to the service counter and ask one of the associates to see “The Ideal Scout Letterbox”, they will be happy to share it with you!
Hope you enjoyed coming to find this letterbox, and a BIG Thanks to Scouting for allowing us to plant this box here in their honor, and for all they do for our young men and boys!
“ The future of America can be enriched by those who personify the spirit of the Scout oath”
** Before you set out to find this box, please note the hours of the Service center as of 10/1/16:
M-F 9-6
Sat 9-1
Closed Sundays
The original life-sized statue of McKenzie's work was unveiled at Philadelphia's Cradle of Liberty Council on June 12, 1937. It stood in front if the council building at 22nd and Winter Streets in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from 1937 to 2013.
Today replicas of the statue can be found at Boy Scouts of America councils across the United States, and we are fortunate here in Milwaukee to have one of these statues on public display!
To see our statue of “The Ideal Scout”, find your way to The Walter and Olive Stiemke Scout Service Center in Milwaukee. The center is also known as the Milwaukee Scout Shop. The center and shop serve the Three Harbors Council, which refers to the three major port cities of Milwaukee, Racine, and Kenosha.
Greeting you on the west side of the building, at the entrance, is the statue. Please take a moment to admire this work of art. When asked about the figure, McKenzie said that the boy's uncovered head denoted reverence, obedience to authority, and discipline. The hatchet held by the scout is a symbol of truthfulness and the hope it would never be unsheathed for wanton destruction, but "applied unceasingly to the neck of treachery, treason, cowardice, discourtesy, dishonesty, and dirt." The statue before you was a gift from the employees of Gammex Inc. to the Boy Scouts in June of 1985 to commemorate the building of this new Milwaukee Scout center.
To find the Letterbox, make your way inside. The office is also home to the Scout Heritage Museum- the museum has limited hours, but you can view it by appointment, and there is an interesting display of Scout memorabilia just outside the Museum. The shop has lots of great outdoor gear and scouting equipment, and is a great place to find a compass, however - you won’t need one to find this letterbox! Simply go up to the service counter and ask one of the associates to see “The Ideal Scout Letterbox”, they will be happy to share it with you!
Hope you enjoyed coming to find this letterbox, and a BIG Thanks to Scouting for allowing us to plant this box here in their honor, and for all they do for our young men and boys!
“ The future of America can be enriched by those who personify the spirit of the Scout oath”
** Before you set out to find this box, please note the hours of the Service center as of 10/1/16:
M-F 9-6
Sat 9-1
Closed Sundays