Rockwell and the Movies

What do George Lucas and Steven Spielberg have in common with millions of Scouts and Scouters? These great American filmmakers both love and admire the work of Norman Rockwell, who spent decades illustrating stories and painting covers for Boys’ Life and the annual Brown & Bigelow Boy Scouts calendars.


Rockwell's Spirit of America (1929) represents just one artistic highlight of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's exhibition and catalog.


Of course, when your movies have brought in billions of dollars, you can do more than just admire an artist: Lucas and Spielberg have long been major collectors of Rockwell’s work.
Now you can see a sizable portion of those collections at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. The filmmakers, who teamed up on the popular Indiana Jones series, have aligned again—this time to arrange the loan of 57 of their Rockwell paintings and drawings for an exhibition that opened in July.



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"Scouting forces you to deal with your discomfort. It trains you to do the thing you don't want to do. And over time, I realized it does something else, too. It trains you to like it.

Mike Rowe
Eagle Scout
Star of "Dirty Jobs"

Court of Honor (Sept 2010 - Set 2)

The Court of Honor Master of Ceremonies.

Announcing the awards.

The receiving line.

Court of Honor (Sept. 2010 - Set 1)

Getting the food ready.

Getting the drinks ready.

Getting the awards ready.

Cunningham Falls Campout (Oct 2010 - Set 3)

At Bob's Hill - Southern View.

Stefan having a secong breakfast. Hey, don't they feed you at home?

At Bob's Hill - Northern Overlook.

Cunningham Falls Campout (Oct 2010 - Photo Set 2)

Chicken Tortilla Dinner in a Dutch Oven.

Notice how everyone gave it a BIG THUMBS UP, except for that strange Scout in the center. By the way, who is he?

And, the Scouts made a new friend later on that evening.

No, he did not end up in next morning's breakfast.

Cunningham Falls State Park - Oct 2010 Campout

Sunday Morning Breakfast - Hashbrown Omlet

(or at least that is what I call it).

Everyone liked it. A couple of lessons learned from cooking this meal:

1. More coals are needed than the recipe calls from. Probably about 35 or so.

2. Cook the hashbrowns and onions first.

3. We used "brown and serve sausages" and pre-cooked bacon. A HUGE time saver.

4. More seasoning is needed - pepper and salt. Hot sauce is an option.

5. Feeds 8 to 10 normal people or 7-8 hungry Scouts.