Posters telling girls to come to the Firesides were posted in the house when it was a pinning or whatever...it was fun sneaking around and putting up the posters, then the girls that you wanted to read you would sneak the reading into their box...with a note "read at the fireside".
The pretty candle with the ring or the pin would go to our housemother, Hazel (who is in heaven now
) and she would come out with the candle lit and then we would all sing.
Hazel was a big part of our AGD family.
For sisterhood firesides they were usually required events and it was kind of the same like the sunshine and/or sisterhood chair would pick girls to read and then we might all have an "open" time to talk or maybe the President or whatever would speak and then we would sing...
Ah...I miss college tonight...