BOy Scouts of America Blog

I wrote more than 3,000 stories for Bryan on Scouting, which I founded in 2009. The BSA’s official blog (now called Aaron on Scouting) became the organization’s farthest-reaching online communication vehicle with more than 350,000 monthly page views when I left in 2022.

hurricane Lost and found

Blog readers helped identify a Cub Scout uniform that washed ashore in Hurricane Irma. Using the power of the blog’s following, we identified the owner and returned this prized possession to him.

Meeting Sally Jewell

I reported on a group of Scouts that met with then-Interior Secretary Sally Jewell in Washington, D.C., to discuss ways to get young people away from screens and out into the beauty of nature.

Scouts at inaugurations

This exhaustively researched blog post covered the fascinating history of the Boy Scouts of America’s involvement at every presidential inauguration from 1913 (Woodrow Wilson) to 2017.

Pinewood Derby history

I shared how the Pinewood Derby, the most popular element of Cub Scouting, was started by a dad who wanted to do something special for his son.

The Southwest Pilot

A Scout left his beloved hat on a Southwest Airlines plane. Good thing the pilot who found it is an Eagle Scout. I blogged about the happy reunion.

Zero-waste Scouting

I helped Scouts and Scout leaders think of ways to lessen their impact on the environment through steps that were “green, greener and greenest.”