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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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Again the white canvas tents are pitched beneath the pines and oaks, as they have been for 120 summers. Again the tent colony, as it is known in the seaside community of Ocean Grove, N.J., begins ...