Troop 7 · since 1922
Fred Kimball’s Campfire Yarns
Baden-Powell taught Scouting as yarns told around the campfire. These are ours: Troop 7 was founded in 1922, three years before the City of Coral Gables, and Fred Kimball has kept its story.
Baden-Powell wrote Scouting for Boys in 1908 as a series of Camp Fire Yarns, meant to be read aloud by a patrol leader, and he followed his yarns with practices and games for the patrol. Fred Kimball has kept Troop 7’s story for decades. Here it is told the same way: a yarn to read, then practices to try on your patrol, and now and then a game.
- Yarn No. 1The log cabin and the Scout HouseTelephone poles after a hurricane, a radio in 1924, a fire in 1971, and the Scout House the Scouts built.
- Yarn No. 2A century of ScoutmastersEvery Scoutmaster from Albert H. Bartle in 1922.
- Yarn No. 3The Eagle ScoutsTroop 7’s Eagles, from John Dix in 1924.
- Yarn No. 4The Eagle flagsThe flag every Troop 7 Eagle signs, and the 78 names on the first one.
- Yarn No. 5The historic flagsTwenty-one flags on the Scout House stage, and the story of each.
- Yarn No. 6The uniformWhere every patch goes on a Troop 7 uniform.
- Yarn No. 7The scrapbookPhotos from the troop’s scrapbooks, the 1920s to the 1990s, and Kim’s Game.
- Yarn No. 8Are you open to lead?The troop’s 21 leadership positions in Fred’s words, and what advancement means, step by step, with links to Scouting America.
Collected and written by Fred W. Kimball, Troop 7 Scoutmaster from 1987 to 2003, who kept the troop's website for many years. Brought here with his blessing, in his words.