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DOWNTOWN

Explore Camden
with our little brown dogs

1 Clues are everywhere
• Pick up clues at Camden Archives & Museum,
1314 Broad Street or;
• View clues at BoykinSpanielInvasion.com or;
• Look at Clue Album on Facebook
@Boykininvasion
2 Find each location of 11 little brown dogs
3 Take a selfie with puppy at each location
4 Upload your photos to our Facebook page
@BoykinInvasion
5 Message @BoykinInvasion with your contact
information
6 We’ll send you a Certificate of Discovery!

“We had to figure it out so they wouldn’t get gone, Those who discover Crown’s progeny around
and we did ... Once we got it figured out, it wasn’t a Camden are sure to love them, too. The project,
big deal,” Anderson says. “It worked out wonderful. officially called the Boykin Spaniel Invasion, began
They look good. I think they look real good.” in earnest about three years ago, spearheaded by
the city’s tourism office and the Camden Archives
Perhaps they look so good because a lot of love went & Museum.
into the original version of the “little ole pups.”
“We were looking at various kinds of markers --
“Oh, Lord, it must have been 30 or 40 years ago they were flat and they were metal,” Rickie Good,
when my dad asked me to make a sculpture of one,” curator of collections at the Camden Archives, says.
says sculptress Mary Deas Boykin Wortley, who “Then Dawn Crites, at the Boykin Spaniel Society,
lives in Ohio but grew up in Boykin. Wortley is the said she had something we might be interested in.
great-granddaughter of the founder of the Boykin It was a copy of Mary’s original statue. We just fell
Spaniel breed, Whit Boykin. in love with it.”

“When I was a child, we always had Boykins. My A grant from Camden’s hospitality tax fund was
great grandfather was a wonderful outdoorsman. used to create 12 statues. They were cast at a
He had an eye for the dogs and he understood foundry in Ohio.
them,” Wortley says.
“We had the best time deciding on their locations,”
“It was a challenge when my dad asked me to make Sale says.
a sculpture of one. Boykins are just so spunky, eager
and bright. I knew I had to capture that.” “We wanted unique sites,” Good adds. “We wanted
pretty places with interesting stories. Places that we
Wortley modeled her sculpture after one of her wanted people to see when they come to Camden.”
Boykins, a dog named Crown.
Start the Boykin Spaniel Invasion tour at the
“Crown had a curly coat and Dad really liked the Camden Archives & Museum, 1314 Broad Street,
wavy coats better, so I made Crown with a wavy where brochures with the clues to the Boykins’
coat. I gave it to him and he loved it.” whereabouts may be picked up.

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