In earlier days it was no easy task each year to sort out the hundreds of tents, find the right size for each frame and put them up. It required many, many willing hands. Usually the job was accomplished on Memorial Day – the time each year when the congregation have their annual get-together, a work day and a picnic combined. Brooms, mops, hammers, saws, shovels, rakes, paint brushes are in full action for the final preparation before opening of the camp meeting.

Equipping the living quarters is easier today. It used to be that sawdust had to be taken to the tent site for floor covering; straw was packed into ticking for mattresses; equipment was moved into the tents only to be moved out again within a few weeks, to be cleaned and stored away. Today the little cabins are equipped and left well intact from one year to the next.