Stories, quotes and anecdotes from Appalachia. 1880s-1950s era.

Category: Evangelists

First time at a revival meeting

It was in the summer of 1897 that I heard of an outdoor revival meeting and decided to attend for two or three days.

He knew that she was pure and being a child she and his children would get along pleasantly together.

Unaware of the kind of novel that Elmer Gantry was to be, he boasted that the central character was to be modeled on himself.

Wherever evangelist Samuel Porter Jones preached, liquor stores closed, theaters and jails emptied, and cursing was reduced to whispers.

Excerpt from Howard Finster, Stranger from Another World, by Howard Finster & Tom Patterson, 1989 about this Georgia folk artist.

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