Juliette Gordon Low by Stacy A. Cordery5/24/2023 ![]() She found that purpose in 1911 when she met Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts. ![]() As the book trudges through the years between her husband’s death and the birth of the Girl Scouts, we are reminded repeatedly that she ultimately disdained social life and desperately sought a purpose. But for the most part, she lived her life, and the story often drags. “She idealized ‘Indian culture,’ ’’ loved uniforms, and joined a boarding-school secret society that awarded badges. ![]() The first half century of Low’s life affords glimpses of her future calling. ![]()
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