Dalton and his Eagle Scout Project

Dalton is a local teen who started a "green" project to help Habitat For Humanity, and to earn an Eagle Scout Badge.  Over the past few months, you may have seen signs with a message saying, "bring in your old jeans". Odd as it may seem, Dalton was collecting them to have them stripped of any metal pieces, and then shredded into bits to be used as insulation for the new construction of a local Habitat for Humanity house this August.I had no idea jeans could be used for such!  Jeans were originally designed for cowboys to have durable  pants that would keep them cool during summer and warm in the winter.  (My ancestor, Eliza Lucas Pinckney, brought the plant that produces the color indigo back from England.  Indigo is the deep blue color we see in blue jeans.)

 Mark and I had the privilege of photographing Dalton while he was folding and counting about 3,000 pairs of jeans!  His mother recently gave us a final count, and they have collected over 8,000 pairs of them!  What an amazing response!  It's invigorating to witness such generosity!  Here are some photos to enjoy!  We hope to see this story in more publications throughout the country....we'll keep you posted!

Jeannie

We were in the Century Tel basement.  They were kind enough to donate the room for Dalton to store all of these!

I think he might have been a little tired after folding a few hundred pair while we there.

Having fun with it!  

Jeannie