The LIMITED EDITION consists of a two DVD set containing all five campmeetings: Cattle Creek, Cypress, and Indian Field, the Anglo-American campmeetings and Saint Paul and Shady Grove, the Afro-American campmeetings.
DVD 1 contains the story of Cattle Creek and Cypress campmeetings.
DVD 2 contains the story of the Indian Field, Shady Grove and St. Paul traditions (Indian Field includes footage shot during the Bicentennial celebration in 2001).
Now Available - Individual Campmeetings on DVD for $20 each (plus S&H)
"The primitive Methodist campmeetings are located within a 20 mile radius from a geographic center in Upper Dorchester County, South Carolina. These "sister" campmeetings share the same historic and evangelical Methodist protestant roots planted by Bishop Frances Asbury; the same social and economic agricultural setting: and shared traditions reflected in both the Anglo-American (Cattle Creek, Cypress, and Indian Field) and Afro-American (Shady Grove and St. Paul) traditions. The decision to include documentation of each of the five traditions affords the participants and tradition bearers of each tradition access to the traditions of their sister campmeetings. In this way it is hoped that the members of each campmeeting will grow to see themselves as one historic folk heritage phenomenon – one unique whole that makes up this remarkable five-piece folk heritage footprint with roots in the late 1700’s and with unbroken traditions that continue to meet annually and are miraculously robust in the 21st century.
Placing this remarkable history of the five clustered campmeetings centered in the upper Dorchester County region of South Carolina in one package means that families that are vested in their own campmeeting will have the opportunity to have the documented origin and history of their own campmeeting, as well as the stories of the neighboring and historically related primitive campmeetings - all rooted in the evangelical tradition that established Methodism among blacks and whites in the late 1700’s – in an heirloom package. Seen altogether, these traditions are alive and well and show that each one’s existence reinforces and strengthens the existence of the other."