| Summary: | (4:04) Helen Robinson describes her years of being a Girl Scout leader. This interview is part of an oral hstory project funded by a grant from the Alabama Historical Records Board, managed by the Alabama Department of Archives and History staff, using funds provided by the National Historical Preservation and Records Commission.Florence- Lauderdale Public Library Digital Archive
Interview with Helen Robinson
June 5, 2009
Florence, Alabama
Conducted by Juliann Losey and Patti Hannah
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Juliann Losey: Did you work with the Girl Scouts?
Helen Robinson: The Girl Scouts were organized in ‘ 40. Mrs. Milliken, her husband was a lawyer, she was the head of the Girl Scouts. And she, we was organized in Slater school in ‘ 40, the Girl Scouts were. I took the younger children because I wasn’t, wasn’t experienced about getting around too much, so I took the little babies, and I scouted for twenty- five years.
JL: What did you do with the girls?
HR: We camped out. For the little girls we always camped on Chisholm Road at a lady’s house out there, who she was a Buckingham and we used her little farm for the little children. And finally, I got to be a leader and we went, she left here and went overseas, I don’t remember who she was, but she anyway, she moved away from here and went overseas for [ inaudible]. She was leader, Mrs. Milliken went to Mobile and she was a leader and at that time I went to Pleasantville, New York to the big girls’ camp for training. And after I came back from that type of training I was head of the camp for all the older children and all, and I was still there when I retired from, I retired from Girl Scouting out at Weeden Heights out there. And the one reason I retired is because I didn’t have any help. We had a good time, but I just didn’t have any help. And I wasn’t able to do it by myself. And that was, give me twenty- five years of scouting. But I loved the camping side, I loved the camping side. The girls and I had a good time. We camped out at Rogersville. We loved camp stew. And we would make a big fire and take this big pot and sit it down where we had this fire. And we’d put everything in it to make a stew. Then we’d cover it up and after we covered the pot, then we’d put coals on top of it. And then we’d go hiking. And we would go from there, on around to get to Rogersville town, and when we got to back to camp, we’d go along up, we’d get back to camp, the stew was done and that’s when we had a good time. And everybody loved camp stew. I was talking to Pat Butler, one of the camp members, she said “ Mama Helen, do you still make it?” I said “ Honey, I wished I could.” So that was the end of my camping.
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