The Wednesday lecture at the Museum at Southwestern Michigan College will feature “100 Years of the Boy Scouts: 1910-2010.”

The lecture, which begins at 6:30 p.m. in the Upton Room at the Museum, is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served after the hour-long lecture.

The lecture will be presented by James Ellis, who was the former executive director of the Las Vegas International Scouting Museum and is currently the editor of the International Scouting Collectors Society Journal, a quarterly publication focusing on scouting history and memorabilia.

Ellis, a member of the LaSalle Council’s Advisory Board in South Bend, is writing a history of Camp Madron, a former scout camp located in Buchanan.

The Museum at SMC, located on the college’s Dowagiac campus, is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. Admission to the museum is free. For more information, call (269) 782-1374 or (269) 687-1600 ext. 1374.