After being cancelled last year for the first time since the Civil War, the Marietta Campmeeting resumes this week through July 18.
The 183rd edition of the religious revival starts Friday with an opening picnic from 6-7 p.m., followed by the opening service at 7:30 p.m.
The full schedule can be found here, with two services daily and three on Sunday.
As in years past, the schedule includes children’s services, an ice cream social and tentholder meetings. After Saturday night’s service, there will be a watermelon-cutting.
Some of those events had been dropped last year when campmeeting organizers proposed a shortened, socially distanced schedule, but that also was scrapped as COVID-19 cases surged in Georgia last summer.
The campmeeting dates back to 1837, shortly after Cobb County was formed out of Cherokee County. During those times, Methodist ministers traveled widely as “Circuit Riders,” since many communities did not have their own clergy.
Most of the events are free and open to the public. The Campmeeting grounds are located at 2300 Roswell Road, across from East Cobb United Methodist Church.
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