James Boyette, age 11, of Sarasota, Florida, for his question:

When did the Boy Scouts start in America?

The world's first 20 Boy Scouts went to a camp in England, way back in the year 1907. The wonderful project was started by Sir Robert Baden Powell, the world's first scoutmaster. In 1908, he published the first Boy Scout Manual    and those young English scouts must have read it with serious attention. It so happens that in 1909 one of them helped a man to find his way through a pea soup London fog. That man was a visiting American businessman named William D. Boyce. This courtesy so impressed Mr. Boyce that he investigated Baden Powell's project. He decided that young Americans deserved to become scouts also and brought this wonderful idea back home with him. He interested other Americans and they started the Boy Scouts of America in the year 1910. It was a small beginning. But 61 years later, the Boy Scouts of America has more than six million members, most of them between ages 8 to 18.