![]() ![]() The Wizard Safari features programs on Saturday for Scouts of all ages, from Lions through Venturers and Explorers. This year’s program is set again in our “Wild West” town of Deadwood. The 2023 Wizard Safari will be held from September 29 through October 1 and you’re invited to attend. While Wizard Ranch is now known as the Wizard Ranch Nature Preserve and is owned by the Lancaster Conservancy, the New Birth of Freedom Council is excited to return to this historic site again to continue the tradition of hosting the Wizard Safari. A new chapter will be added to the Wizard Safari legacy this year, with the holding of the 10th modern Safari. The modern Safari focused on the current Scouting generation but was also filled with memories of past Safaris. In 1987, our Council started a new tradition to honor the memory of this great Scouting advocate by holding the first of the modern Safaris. In a letter to the Council dated “October 1960,” bearing in the stationery logo the message “Wizard Ranch – the Yellowstone Park of the East,” Haines noted, “I hope to live long enough to see this one of the great Scout reservations in America, which will add much to making better boys, better men and better people in our community, by enjoying the privileges of being out of doors.” He believed so strongly in Scouting that he left Wizard Ranch to the Council. Haines began a Scouting tradition by holding the first Haines Safari at his Wizard Ranch in Hellam Township. ![]()
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