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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 ...

When asked about his childhood memories of Waldheim Park, the old camp meeting ground in south Allentown, the Rev. Harold P. Scanlin smiles. He recalls warm summer days swimming in the quarry pond and ...

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A 60-piece orchestra played rousing sacred music. A reformed jailbird, a one-time drug-addict, a converted cowpuncher, a ”reformed Presbyterian deacon” gave testimonials. A brief, fierce sermon ...

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 ...

For the Taylor siblings, summer would not be complete without a stay at Seyfert Camp. The Taylors attend Christian revival meetings at the camp in Robeson Township each summer. So they were ...

Jul. 1—Peniel Holiness Camp Meeting, Route 18, Conneautville, begins July 20 with a concert at 7:30 p.m. introducing the Phillips and Banks southern gospel quartet. Camp continues until July 30 with ...

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 ...