Boy Scout Troop 76:
A Parker County Tradition
BY REBECCA WILLIAMS
PHOTOS BY REBECCA WILLIAMS
It’s 1949. Less than $7,500 buys a
new house and an additional $1,500
fills the garage with a fresh ride.
Minimum wage is 70 cents an hour,
but gasoline is only 17 cents per
gallon. Although time travel back to
America’s “Golden Age” isn’t actually possible, one aspect from that
era has remained in the area: Boy
Scout Troop 76. Chartered by Grace
First Presbyterian Church, Troop
76 is the oldest Boy Scout troop in
Weatherford with a 66-year continuous charter.
The late Jim Wright, former
speaker of the U.S. House of
Representatives and Weatherford
Mayor, was the first scout master of
Troop 76. One of Wright’s inaugural
scouts, Randy Coney – still a member
of Grace First Presbyterian Church –
remembers his scouting years fondly.
“There were eight of us that
started in the troop, and we had one
patrol, the Rattlesnake patrol,” Coney
said, FF