On a recent one-day grand tour of the Ozark hills over yonder where I grew up, I tried to explain to my friend Mark about the "camp meetings" that were held in Des Arc nearly a century ago. As we ...

LITTLE ROCK — The official start of summer approaches, and for some Arkansans that means it’s almost camp meeting time. It’s a tradition that dates back to 1821, 15 years before Arkansas became a ...

WILMORE — When Bernie Cobb was 5 or 6 years old, his mother packed a picnic lunch, his father asked a neighbor to milk the cow, and the family hitched up their horse and rode 12 miles to the Wilmore ...

What began in 1940 under a big tent in Etowah County’s Gallant community remains alive — but, unfortunately, on hiatus — 80 years later. The great preaching and joyful singing that fills the annual ...

Becky Bragg Taylor can remember when there was camping at the Salem Camp Meeting in Saline County and when the revival services lasted two whole weeks. Some folks pitched a tent on the grounds. The ...

RIDGEVILLE—The new wooden cabin tents give Lynn Hoover a chill every time she goes by them. It's Camp Meeting time, still. Only a few vacant spaces remain with dark cinder scars. The 'tents' around ...

Two years of the Civil War and the COVID-19 pandemic. In 193 years, those are the only times that the Salem Campmeeting (sometimes written as two words) has not been held in person. Last year, the ...

When Betty Kincaid's first husband asked her to marry him, she had one question: Would he go to the Salem Camp Meeting in Covington, Georgia, with her every year? When he said yes, she said yes. “I ...

I received a letter from the Rev. James P. Tate, a friend of mine, who is host pastor of the Rock Springs Camp Meeting which takes place Aug. 5-12 at Rock Springs Campground in Denver. These meetings ...

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