For several
weeks now I have been visiting my sister who is recuperating after back
surgery. She is in a facility in the
Roselane and Lacy Street area. What I
am getting at is that I have been driving up and down Lacy Street a lot. On Lacy Street is Saint Joseph Catholic
Church, the oldest Catholic Church in Marietta.
In my
formative years I belonged to Saint
Joseph's Boy Scouts Troop 132.
Each day as
I ride down (or up) Lacy Street I saw the church school's students out in the
grassy area playing games, probably well
supervised by a fine Sister.
The
other evening I rode down Lacy by the
school and saw a cluster of Boy Scouts
in regulation uniforms doing yard work
Probably an
Eagle Project I mused to myself. I went
on with my thinking, "I wonder if the Scout Troop is still Troop number 132?"
Then up the
street a hundred or so feet between two
school buildings another group of Boy Scouts, some not in full uniform, some
wearing non-regulated pants, and some (gasp!) with their shirt-tails hanging
out. They looked like they were having a
good unauthorized non-supervised time, away from the leaders.
In a way,
I'm glad our little rebellious group in Troop 132 tradition still lives, over
60 years.
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