This khaki dress was one of the Girl Scouts' first uniforms. Long before iron-on options, the uniform featured hand-sewn patches on the sleeve. Girls were expected to wear long socks to maintain a ...

"I'm sorry, Daphyne, but you'll have to get out of line. Little black girls can't be Brownies," Watson's teacher told her five decades ago In 1960, Daphyne Watson was thrilled when she heard an ...

HAVE SURVIVED 111 YEARS, BUT BELIEVE IT OR NOT, THE GIRL SCOUTS HAVE. AT THE GIRL SCOUT HEADQUARTERS IN ORLANDO, THEY HAVE PUT TOGETHER A HUGE COLLECTION OF VINTAGE GIRL SCOUT MEMORABILIA, INCLUDING ...

Brownie Troop No. 1973 held its first meeting the other day. Actually, it was the parents of the prospective Brownies who convened on the playground after we dropped off our daughters at school. There ...

ONE of my favourite childhood photographs shows me and my twin sister Yvonne standing in my granny’s back garden wearing our new Brownie uniforms. We were about seven or eight – so it was the ...