Scoutmaster Podcast 73 - The Boy from Aarhus | ScoutmasterCG Archive - Archived and reproduced without explicit permission

From Aarhus, to New York, and beyond …

… the remarkable story of how young Vilhelm Hans Bjerregaard Jensen’s encounter with a crate of WWI surplus semaphore flag poles changed the course Scouting in the United States.

But I had become a restless dreamer. The two world jamborees had stirred my blood. I had met people from around the world. I wanted to meet them on their home grounds. I arranged with my newspaper to be its roaming reporter on a trip around the world. I took off in September 1925, covered London and southern England, then settled down for a month in Liverpool to write another boys’ book. It paid my boat fare for New York, where I landed in February 1926.

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