By Ed Simmons, Jr.
cpreporter@lcs.net
Among the Boy Scouts stopping by the Caroline County Visitors Center was 9th-grader Joshua Blanchard who'd ridden up from New Orleans with 60 other Scouts. Specifically, he was from just southwest of New Orleans, a place called Thibodaux. He said he was glad "to come all the way up here to the Centennial Boy Scout Jamboree and get to go to Washington to see all the monuments. This is a big deal."
At the Visitors Center the Scouts toured a Boy Scout display of artifacts collected by Wayne Brooks, who has another exhibit in the Kilwinning Crosse Masonic Lodge in Bowling Green. A big attraction too at the Visitors Center was the plexi-glass box full of Boy Scout patches the Scouts could fish through for three minutes for $3, and get five patches. The Scout said Wayne Brooks' exhibit was "really good."