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 – 14^th World Jamboree, Lillehammer

1975:     Germany – 6^th 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