The Scrapbook (from 2006)

Summer Scouts Combine Time Travelers with Girl Scout Council of Colonial Coast's "Explore Hampton Roads Communities" Program

Homeschooled Junior Girl Scouts from a variety of troops banded together as “Summer Scouts” to participate in activities and outings together through the summer of 2006. The girls, armed with their Time Traveler passports, used the Girl Scouts Council of Colonial Coast’s Explore Hampton Roads Communities program as their foundation, and explored Portsmouth, Virginia Beach, Norfolk and Suffolk, taking in many of the local historic attractions along the way.

First stop was Portsmouth with its historic Olde Towne. The Children’s Museum of Virginia, Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Museum, and the Courthouse Galleries were among the stops for the day.

Virginia Beach had to be divided into three excursions. We began with the Bayside History Trail Day and visited Pembroke Manor House, Ferry Plantation House, Lynnhaven House, Old Donation Episcopal Church and Adam Thoroughgood House. Our second outing took us to the Old Coast Guard Station, First Landing State Park, and Virginia Beach City Hall. We visited the Francis Land House on a third outing.

Norfolk was an all day adventure – beginning with the Hunter House Victorian Museum, the Willoughby Baylor House, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, and the MacArthur Memorial, and on our final Explore venture, Suffolk’s Seaboard Station Railroad Museum was a lot of fun, as was the tour of Riddick’s Folly and the Courthouse and City Hall complex.

Almost all of the girls earned the Colonists to Countrymen 1607-1799 commemorative patch and Master Traveler designation.

Although the Summer Scouts group has disbanded until next summer, the girls will continue to explore our local area as part of new troops. We look forward to being Time Travelers in 2007!