Them religious revivals they used to have, you don’t see much of that sort of goings-on nowadays; but in them days they was great doin’s. When I was a kid we used to look forward to ‘em like we did the circus. Sometimes they was as good as a circus.
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| — | “Big Fred tells a tale: A Baptism that didn’t take” from Life History Manuscripts from the Folklore Project, WPA Federal Writer’s Project, 1936-1940 |
