Saturday: June 14 Sunday: June 15 Monday: June 16 Tuesday: June 17 Wednesday: June 18 Thursday: June 19 Friday: June 20 Note: Thank you to longtime friend James Hermes for helping convert the original Publisher files over to PDF. Order of the Arrow Pages tmschultzeT.M. Schultze is a San Diego-based photographer, traveller, and writer. He … Read more
Graphics Maps PowerPoint Radio June 16 Radio Broadcast KOAL, Utah (Converted to MP3) June 16 Radio Broadcast KOAL, Utah (Original Windows Media Audio File) Order of the Arrow Pages tmschultzeT.M. Schultze is a San Diego-based photographer, traveller, and writer. He writes, photographs, and draws things of the outdoors that have inspired humans for thousands of … Read more
My last visit to the Manti-La Sal project was in January 2010 on a photo trip with my friend Jeremy Long. I visited again over Memorial Day weekend in 2018 to survey the work we did and provide a report on the results after 10 years. Skip To: Joe’s Valley Reservoir | Dry Wash | … Read more
May 4, 2018 20 years ago, on May 4th, 1998, we registered the domain name www.snakepower.org. Cahuilla Lodge was one of the first Lodges in the country to have their own domain name (Octoraro Lodge (Archive Link) appears to have been the first in 1995 although they are curiously now using a different URL). In … Read more
After the Order of the Arrow’s founding in 1915, it spread rapidly across the United States. For early Lodges, this can be tracked by their location and lodge number. In the late 1930s, the Order of the Arrow finally reached California. The first three Lodges, Canalino 90, Navajo 98, and Tahquitz 127, were founded in … Read more
I thought it would be good to take a moment to talk about demographics. How do they relate to the OA, and the greater program of the BSA? I would like to recount some observations from my previous Lodge. I grew up in Southern California’s Inland Empire. This area, East of Los Angeles and Orange … Read more
Order of the Arrow chapters are ubiquitous, even if they are not necessarily part of the officially organized program of the Order. And why not? Lodges in the Western Region would struggle to offer any sort of local program if chapters were not utilized. With further consolidation of councils, building areas of service that are … Read more
Social Media has dramatically changed the internet in the past decade. In turn, organizations like the Order of the Arrow have made social media an important and sometimes all-consuming way to get information. So what if I were to tell you that you have been doing social media wrong? As the saying goes, nothing is … Read more
As of May 2020, I will be celebrating 30 years as a member of the Order of the Arrow. The first 20 years were in Cahuilla Lodge and 10 additional years have been spent in Tiwahe Lodge. I have had the great fortune to serve in a variety of leadership capacities as both a youth … Read more
As part of the 2018 Lodge Historian webinar program put together by Bradley Taylor, Robert Mason, and Kyle Brendel, I am sharing some of my thoughts and expertise on how photography both informs and compliments a holistic Lodge history program. Can you provide a list of 10-12 items/events/people/things to photograph for any given lodge year? … Read more