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Thursday, October 10, 2013

The Ashes....

On Sunday, if you got a bag of ashes from the fire, we promised that we'd get the list and ceremony to you electronically.  These will also be available on the "Skits and Ceremonies" page of the website.  We hope you will now use this ceremony and the ashes to pass on this tradition to others; and bring some back to GE next year so we can incorporate all the places you go this year into this list!!!!!



THE CAMPFIRE ASHES CEREMONY

Ashes of Friendship

HISTORY: Taking ashes from one campfire to another is a ceremony conducted by Girl Scouts, Girl Guides and Boy Scouts all around the world. The purpose of the tradition is to emphasise to all Scouts and Guides the international aspect of the world scouting movement. Ashes from a campfire are sprinkled into the flames of the next campfire. The next morning, when the ashes are cold, they are stirred and each Scout/Guide present at the ceremony takes some to mix with the next campfire. Each Scout/Guide keeps a list of all of the campfires in which they have sprinkled their ashes. If more than one Scout/Guide brings ashes to the campfire, the lists are combined; the dates and places of all campfires are recorded and passed on. As Girl Scouts, Girl Guides and Boy Scouts travel, the ashes circle the globe. It is a tradition that only those actually present at the campfire can receive ashes from the ceremony to carry on to another campfire.

CEREMONY:

 “We carry our friendship with us in these ashes from other campfires with other comrades in other lands.  May the joining of the past fires with the leaping flames of this fire, symbolize once more the unbroken chain that binds Scouts and Guides around the world.
With greetings from our brothers and sisters around the world, I will add these ashes and the fellowship contained therein, to our campfire.
Will anyone with ashes please come forward and join me. (Wait for others)
The ashes I spread into this campfire carry memories of past campfires dating back to (1956.) (Insert your date here.)
I will now add these ashes to the campfire. (Sprinkle ashes)
So that you may pass these ashes on and share them with others at your next campfire, you will be given a history of where these ashes have been.” (Recite a few examples of the history of ashes added to fire.  OR say “These ashes contain elements from campfires in Europe, Asia, and North and South America.)
These ashes have been carried by Guides and Scouts around the world and have come from campfires in:
1956:     Germany – Order of the Arrow Council Fire, Camp Freedom
1956:     Scotland – International Jamboree
1957:     Germany – Order of the Arrow Council Fire, Camp Freedom
1957:     England – World Jamboree, Sutton Colfield
1958:     Switzerland – International Scout Chalet, Kandersteg
1958:     Germany – Order of the Arrow Council Fire, Camp Freedom
1959:     Germany – Order of the Arrow Council Fire, Camp Freedom
1959:     USA - National Junior Roundup
1960:     USA – Wood Badge #134, Schiff Reservation, NJ
1961:     USA – Roundup
1962:     Switzerland – Our Chalet, Adelboden
1962:     USA – Roundup
1963:     USA - All States Campout
1964:     USA – All States Arizona Project
1965:     USA – Senior Campout
1965:     USA – Roundup
1965:     USA – Shadow Ridge Campout
1965:     USA – Cadette Campout
1965:     USA – All States Campout
1965:     USA – All States Arizona Project
1965:     USA – Camp Mary White
1966:     USA – Cadette Campout
1967:     Canada – with Lady Baden-Powell
1967:     Brazil – Second Pan American Jamboree, Rio de Janeiro
1968:     Taiwan – Jungle Survival
1968:     Taiwan – Camp McCauley
1969:     USA – Camp Chimney Park, Longs Peak Council, Wyoming
1970:     USA – Wood Badge R1-11, Adams Pond Camp, Boston Council, MA
1970:     Germany – Training Camp, Schwetzingen Forest
1970:     Germany – Diamond Jubilee Camp – Petershof, Odenwald
1970:     England – Diamond Jubilee Camp, Lancashire
1971:     USA - Wood Badge R1-11, Adams Pond Camp, Boston Council, MA
1971:     Belgium – Training Camp LaFresnaye
1971:     Holland – Whitsun Camp, Dwingeloo
19 71:    USA – Camp Covered Bridge, Louisville, KY
1972:     Germany – Camp Juliette Low, Rhein-Hein
1972:     Germany – Junior Campout
1972:     Germany – Camp Lachenwald
1972:     Belgium – Chievres Training Camp
1972:     Germany – NAGA Training Conference, Garmisch, March
1972:     Germany – Siegenburg, May
1972:     Germany – Munich, October
1972:     USA – Little Roundup, Peoria, IL
1972:     USA - Camp Covered Bridge, Louisville, KY
1973:     Mexico – Our Cabana, Cuernevaca
1973:     USA – Arizona
1973:     USA - Wood Badge NE – I-7, Training Center, Old Colony Council, MA
1973:     Germany – Training Camp, Friendship Acres
1973:     Belgium – Training Camp, Abbaye de Maredsous
1973:     Germany – Training Camp Idenheim
1973:     Germany – Resident Training Camp, Idenheim
1973:     Germany – Siakein
1973:     Germany – Secahaupt, Junior Troop 632, June
1973:     Germany – Secahaupt, Leader Training, August
1973:     Germany – Munich Troop Campout, October
1973:     Belgium – Abbaye de Nared Training Camp
1973:     Germany – Greirdship acres Training Camp
1973:     Germany – Idemear Training Camp
1973:     Germany – Camp Zerus
1973:     Germany – Camp Lachenwald
1973:     Belgium – LaFrasnaye Resident Leader Training
1973:     Germany – Berlin French American Cadette Campout
1973:     Germany – Heidelberg Day Camp, Schwetsingen Forest
1973:     USA – Wood Badge Training, Region 4, Buckskin Res. WVa
1973:     USA – Camp Rough River, Old Kentucky Home Council, KY
1973:     USA - Philmont Training Center, NM
1973:     USA – National Jamboree West, Farragut State Park, ID
1973:     Lichtenstein – Guide and Junior Campout
1974:     Germany – Camp Lachenwald
1974:     Germany – Heidelberg, Trainers Training
1974:     USA - Pennsylvania
1974:     Switzerland – Our Chalet, Adelboden
1974:     Germany – Camp Lelback, Senior Campout
1974:     France - German/French/American Campout, Vogesen
1974:     Germany - District Hilltop Day Camp, Stuttgart
1974:     Germany- Cadette Encampment, Stuttgart
1974:     Switzerland – Camp Training, Our Chalet, Adelboden
1974:     USA Wood Badge NE-I-8, Training Center, Old Colony Council, MA
1974:     Germany – Munich
1974:     Germany – Camp Dahn
1974:     England – Keys to Partnership Conference, Oxford
1974:     Germany – Outdoor Training, Camp Dahn
1974:     Germany – District Conference, Camp Taho, Kaiserslautern
1974:     Germany – Training Conference, Zwingenberg Youth Hostel
1974:     England - Our Ark, London
1974:     Columbia – Third Pan American Jamboree, Bogota
1974:     Germany – Wood Badge Training, NE-III-9, Camp Freedom
1974:     Luxembourg, Camp training, Vianden
1975:     England – UK Conference, Green Magic, Baden-Powell House
1975:     Germany – Hostel Bash, Mandersheed
1975:     Germany – Leader Campout, Schwetzingen Forest
1975:     Germany - All Junior Campout, Schwetzingen Forest
1975:     Germany – Heidelberg Day Camp, Schwetzingen Forest
1975:     USA Badge NE-I-31, Sayre Reservation, Boston Council, MA
1975:     Belgium – Intercamp ’75 (Six Nations)
1975:     Germany - Wood Badge Training, NE-III-9, Camp Freedom
1975:     Germany – Klondike Derby, Heidelberg
1975:     Norway – 14th World Jamboree, Lillehammer
1975:     Germany – 6th grade Junior Campout, Schwetzingen Forest
1975:     Germany – Leadership Development Training, Schwetzingen Forest
1976:     Germany – District Spring Camporee, Lamperthein Woods
1976:     Germany - Wood Badge Training, NE-III-32, Camp Freedom
1976:     Germany - Wood Badge Training, NE-III-33, Camp Freedom
1976:     Germany – Order of the Arrow Conference, Camp Freedom
1976:     England - Wood Badge Training, NE-III-34, Gilwell Park
1976:     USA Wood Badge, NE-I-38, Sayre Reservation, Milton, MA
1977:     USA Portage Spring Camporee, Fort Dearhorn, Chicago, IL
1977:     USA Campfire, Pompeii Community Camp, Park Forest, IL
1977:     USA National Jamboree, Moraine State Park, PA
1977:     USA Campfire, Troop 56, Two Rivers Council at National Jamboree
1977:     USA Wood Badge, NE-I-48, Sayre Reservation, Milton, MA
1978:     USA Campfire, Pompeii Community Camp, Park Forest, IL
1979:     USA Wood Badge, NE-I-68, Sayre Reservation, Milton, MA
1979:     USA Girl Scout Day Camp, Hopkinsville KY, July
1979:     USA Leader Weekend, March
1979:     USA Leader Weekend, Camp Piedmont, Murfreesboro, TN, November
1980:     USA Camp Piedmont, Sister Troop Weekend Troop 281, 267
1980:     USA Camp Chanyata, Sarasota, FL (Flag Burning)
1980:     USA Eastern Camporee, West Point, NY
1980:     USA, Wood Badge, NE-I-83, Sayre Reservation, Milton, MA
1980:     USA Greater Boston Council Camporee, Massasoit, Plymouth, MA
1981:     USA Leadership Development Training, Sayre Reservation, Milton, MA
1981:     USA A.I.S. Pow-wow, Glens Falls, NY            
1981:     USA Wild Goose Camp, Storer Reservation, Greater Boston Council
1981:     USA Indaba Training TLTC, Adams Pond, Storer Reservation
1981:     USA Cedar Hill Girl Scout Camp, Waltham, MA
1981:     USA LBL Campcrafter ACA Adult Instructor Workshop
1981:     USA LBL Campcrafter Workshop
1982:     USA Hauchens Day Camp, Bowling Green, KY
1984:     USA Session I Bear Creek Aquatic Camp Kentuckiana GSC
1984:     USA Patriots Trail World Conference Demo Patrol, Cedar Hill, Waltham, MA 5/19
1984:     USA Prairie Trail MS
1984:     USA Scranton, PA GS
1984:     USA Edith Macy – World Conference Demo Patrol Encampment 7/21/84
1986:     USA Cedar Hill, Waltham, MA Reopening Ceremony 6/22/86
1986:     USA Leaders’ Great Escape, Camp Favorite, Brewster, MA
1989:     USA Basic Troop Camping Training, Cedar Hill, Waltham, MA 5/6/89
1990:     USA Basic Troop Camping Training, Cedar Hill, Waltham, MA 4/28/90
1991:     USA Camp Virginia, Bolton, MA 10/12/91
1992:     USA Camp Favorite, Brewster, MA 10/92
1993:     USA Camp Wabasso, Bradford, NH 5/22/93
1994:     USA Camp Menotomy, Meredith, NH 4/14/94
1995:     USA Camp Favorite, Brewster, MA 5/20/95
1996:     USA Camp Favorite, Brewster, MA 5/10/96
1997:     USA Camp Menotomy, Meredith, NH 5/17/97
1998:     USA Camp Virginia, Bolton, MA 5/17/98
1999:     USA Camp Wabasso, Bradford, NH 6/5/99
2010:     USA Camp Maude Eaton, Andover, MA 6/12/2010
2011:     USA Camp Maude Eaton, Andover, MA 5/1/2011
2012:     USA Canoe Cookout, Concord, MA 9/16/2012
2013:     USA Tents Up, Wind in the Pines, Plymouth, MA  4/13/13
2013:     USA Camp Training, Camp Favorite, Brewster, MA 5/11/13
2013       USA The Great Escape, Camp Wabasso, Sutton, NH 10/5/13

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