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Book Club
Sign up for the next book discussion – “Trail of the Sandhill Stag” on September 13th and “Animal Heroes” on October 25th.
Seton’s Plaster Poem from “Little Peequo” has a new home – Part 1
Little Peequo was the last home Seton built in Greenwich. This poem was created in July 1925. In summer 2024, this poem and other plaster art were extracted by members of the Camp Fire Club of America before the crumbling building was demolished. We are grateful to the CFCA for its commitment to preserving Seton’s … Read more
Linda Mitchell Davis 1930 – 2024
We interviewed her in 2019 for the oral history project. When she was a young teenager, she would listen to ETS tell stories about animals when he visited a library in Albuquerque during WWII. Her interview is posted at https://youtu.be/jHdvLZMIBW0. Wishing her family and friends our condolences. May her memory be a blessing to all … Read more
Thank You for Your Support
We are deeply gratified for your continuing support to spread E. T. Seton’s legacy across the world. His practical ideas about respecting nature and building character are needed now more than ever. We cannot do this without you. If you haven’t yet, please renew your membership, today!
Woodcraft Accommodation in the Barton’s Backyard
In the early 1940s, H. Allen Barton built a teepee using the instructions found in the Birch Bark Roll, the Woodcraft League of America’s handbook. The Bartons challenged their two children to sleep in the teepee for 30 consecutive days which would have each earned a Woodcraft coup, had Woodcraft still been active in the … Read more
Woodcraft Memories
Prompted by listening to one of the oral histories, Dr. Maida Barton Follini provided us with the following: Below is the tepee made by my father, H. Allen Barton, following the instructions in Seton’s Book of Woodcraft. The covering was of canvas ordered from Sears & Roebuck, (not deer skins or bison skins as we … Read more
