Scouts will re-create first camp from 1907

CANFIELD — Members of the Whispering Pines District of the Greater Western Reserve Council of the Boy Scouts of America will be encamped at the Canfield Fairgrounds for the course of the fair, providing games and activities for younger children.

Scouts will re-create the first Scout camp in 1907, complete with an American Indian Tee-pee. They will showcase period costumes and demonstrate the games played by children at the first camp.

Activities include a “Chief Wowaton Campfire” at 8:30 p.m. Friday, and rope-making demonstrations to be held throughout the day Saturday. Troop 46, of Boardman, will hold a court of honor at 6:30 p.m. Sunday. Also Sunday, the Scouts will host a flag retirement ceremony at 8 p.m.

Boy Scouts can be found camping at Goshen and Ellsworth drives in the southeast corner of the fairgrounds, near gates D and E.