DeSotoSky
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Hello and welcome to the Sunday Picture Show. Share your Buck knives with others by posting pictures of them here. New or old, plain or custom, user or safe queen, one or a collection, we love to see them all. This weekly tradition was started in 2010 by ItsTooEarly (Armand Hernandez) and Oregon (Steve Dunn). Help keep the tradition alive. Feel free to click that 'LIKE' but lets not let it replace discussing and complimenting each others knives. DeSotoSky (Roger Yost)
On this Day, May 26, 1647, Alse Young – First Witch Hanging Victim in Colonial America
The Puritans must have taken the Bible seriously...Exodus 22:18, “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live”. Witchcraft was one of 12 capital crimes in colonial Connecticut. A record of the hanging of a witch was found to have taken place some 45 years before the 1692 Salem witch trials. Very little is known about the life of Alse (Alice?) Young. Alse was born in Berkshire, England in 1600 (or 1615), and came to the Colonies some time in the 1630’s. She was the wife of a carpenter and landowner John Young. There is record of a daughter named Alice born in 1640 (who was incidentally accused of witchcraft in a dispute 30 years later). There is no record of her trial or the charges against her. The Windsor town Clerk made a diary entry for May 26, 1647, “Alse Young was hanged.” (see top poorly legible entry of first image). There are other historical references to the hanging. In 2017, 360 years later, Alse was officially exonerated by the Windsor town council. That was a bit too late for poor Alse...
Alse Young: The First Witch of the American Colonies
Since Thanksgiving is upon us, I thought it might be fun to continue my Witch of the Week series with a woman that few of us have heard of, but nonetheless plays an important role in American witch…
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For May 26th I have a model 526 Executive c.1985. The Executive is similar to the model 525 Gent with the upgrade of a polished blade and polished beveled edges. This particular knife is engraved with Boy Scout Wood Badge symbols.
Wood Badge Beads
At the completion of Wood Badge completing your tickets you will be presented with your Wood Badge beads. These are two beads on the end of a leather thong that are worn around your neck. The beads are copies of those reported to have been taken from the necklace from which Baden-Powell captured from Chief Dinizulu.
Ax and Log Totem
The axe and log totem was conceived by the first Camp Chief, Francis Gidney, in the early 1920s to distinguish Gilwell Park from the Scout Headquarters. Gidney wanted to associate Gilwell Park with the outdoors and Scoutcraft rather than the business or administrative Headquarters offices. Scouters present at the original Wood Badge courses regularly saw axe blades masked for safety by being buried in a log. Seeing this, Gidney chose the axe and log as the totem of Gilwell Park.
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