Scrapbooks and boxes of memories hold special older-family-member keepsakes from historic visits to Colorado Springs during two large Boy Scout and Girl Scout anniversaries in 1959 and 1960.
Perhaps the next generations, possibly many of them Scouts as well, have seen the pictures and heard the stories and visited the sites just piecing together pages of local or Scouting history or maybe visiting during vacation trips.
For the Boy Scouts it was honoring the 50th year of Scouting in America with their fifth annual Jamboree July 22-29, 1960. Scouts arrived from every state and from 26 other countries for “Onward for God and My Country.”…