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b&w tent revival meeting interior
July 18, 2019 Evangelists

That old-time tent revival

It’s tent revival season across Appalachia – the region that invented the tent revival. First camp meeting? KY’s Gasper River Church. 1800.

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traveling baptist preacher, ky, 1910s
February 20, 2018 Evangelists / Kentucky / Preachers

He wanted people who ate at his house to have what they wanted

Two Methodist preachers came to pass Sunday at the home of Noble, [and they] insisted that all the cooking be done on Saturday for Sunday.

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ear of corn on pedestal
August 14, 2017 Evangelists / Oral histories / Tennessee

We have canned 113 cans of corn and several beans

The mill here is running good. Still it’s hard to get a job as so many are still out of work. I will close by promising to write more often.

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girl down the drain dream generator
May 31, 2017 Evangelists / Family life / Kentucky / Love and romance

His excuse for marrying a child was…

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

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howard finster national portrait gallery 1988
July 7, 2015 Evangelists / Folk art / Georgia

Howard Finster, master of Paradise Gardens

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

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