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Title: Illustrated Flushing and vicinity : College Point, Broadway-Flushing, Malba-on-the-Sound, Whitestone, Bayside, Douglaston, Little Neck in the third wa
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Richardson, Darby.
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Publisher: (Flushing, N.Y.) : Darby Richardson
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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AMP Fire Girls is an organization of girls and women to developthe home spirit and make it dominate the entire community. It is a means of organizing a girls daily home life. It showsthat romance, beauty and adventure are to be found on every hand andin wholesome way; that the daily drudgery may be made to contributeto this beauty of living. It gives girls interesting and wholesome thingsto do together. It deliberately intends to promote happy social life.It uses beautiful ceremonies, has an appealing ritual and bases rank andhonor upon personal attainment. There are attractive ceremonial cos-tumes, honor beads and decorations. It interprets daily things in termsof poetry, symbolism, color and imagination. Each group of girls overtwelve years old is called a Camp Fire. The responsible head of a CampFire is called Guardian of the Fire. She is appointed by the National
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A Council of the Camp Fire Girls in Flushing Woods50 FLUSHING AND VICINITY Board. The Camp Fire Girls have three ranks: Wood Gatherer, FireMaker and Torch Bearer. Ceremonial meetings are held monthly.At this meeting honors are awarded, rank is conferred and new membersare received. Weekly meetings are held to help the girls formulate theirdaily work. Often these meetings are held in conjunction with a hikeand the study of nature lore. Camp Fire stands not only for the home, but also for the genuine-ness and simplicity of the out-of-doors. The Camp Fire movement was started in Flushing in May, 1915, bya few girls who asked Miss Carolyn A. Freeman to be their Guardian.A group of ten girls formed and called themselves the Matinicoe CampFire, named after the Matinicoe Indians who settled on Long Island inthe early days. During November of 1915 an open Council Fire was held in thechapel of the First Methodist Church, the idea being to give the generalpublic an outline of what the work was.

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