American Christianity and Methodists

Women dragged their whiskey-drinking husbands to brush arbor revivals, where they converted to Christianity, gave up booze and became stalwarts of the community.

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The Methodist Church has conducted camp meetings here since 1820. Camp meetings are religious revivals at which participants eat and sleep on site. Those who traveled long distances to attend the Gatherings here, usually held in later summer, spent two to three weeks in brush arbors. Wikipedia