Web Sites

I found out from my local Internet Guru, the organist at my church, whose day job is a web designer and who runs a hosting service and such, that .us domains are on sale from those who control those things.  My pack registered www.cubpack480.us for five years for under $30.  I think that was a bargain.  John, also, got us a domain for our church (but there is no web site yet to see).

Anyway, why I bring this up is I think .us extensions for Cub Packs, Boy Scout Troops and Venturing Crews sounds really neat and right now they are a bargain.  So maybe you want to make the big leap and register a new site for your unit.

This looks like a really good all-purpose Scouting site -

http://www.scoutorama.com/ .  Over 200 songs and lots of Pinewood Derby hints.

For those of you who can’t get enough info on Pinewood Derby cars - Here is the home page of the Pinewood Derby Web Ring-

http://t.webring.com/hub?sid=&ring=pwd&id=&hub

And of course there is “The Pope’s Place,” the web site run by Barb and Stan Pope which has extensive Pinewood Derby hints and other Scouting stuff including a picture of their minivan being carried away with a failed alternator while on its way to the Philmont Training Center

http://members.aol.com/StanDCmr/

Need to track your Cub Scouts’ Advancement progress??  This site has tracking forms for all ranks

http://www.geocities.com/cybercubber/cub-tracker.html

My Home State is the theme for May 2004.  So to help you get started –

The Kids page on the New Jersey  state website is

http://www.state.nj.us/hangout_nj/

Poke around and you can find out all about the flag (a Wolf requirement) and other neat stuff -

This site has lists of facts for every state –

http://www.50states.com/

Here are fun state facts from the US Census Bureau

http://factfinder.census.gov/home/en/kids/funfacts/funfacts.html

And from the Internet Public library, brought to you by the University of Michigan another kids’ page of state facts

http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/stateknow/

Thanksgiving Web sites

Kathy DeFoe, Hudson valley Council

THE AMERICAN THANKSGIVING TRADITION http://www.plimoth.org/Library/Thanksgiving/thanksgi.htm

The First Thanksgiving Mayflower Home page http://members.aol.com/calebj/thanksgiving.html

Pilgrims

http://www.lkwdpl.org/schools/elempath/pilgrims/

Plymouth rock

http://www.plimoth.org/Library/plymrock.htm

Pilgrim Memorial State Park (Plymouth rock park) http://www.state.ma.us/dem/parks/plgm.htm

WWW Virtual Library - American Indians

Index of Native American Resources on the Internet http://www.hanksville.org/Naresources/

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