EDWARDSVILLE – On Labor Day each year, the sounds of spirited hymns drift through the forest near the Shoal Creek Church, built in 1895. The Shoal Creek Preservation Society hosted its annual sacred ...

On the first Sunday afternoon of every month, I gather with a small group in the basement of the Friends Meetinghouse, 1802 E. First St. We arrange the metal folding chairs into a square to face each ...

BREMAN, Ga. (AP) - Singers at Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church in West Georgia treat their red hymnals like extensions of themselves, never straying far from their copies of "The Sacred Harp" ...

BREMEN, Ga. -- "The Sacred Harp" hymnal is beloved by those who sing from it, carrying on the Christian songbook's more than 180-year-old legacy. They are young and old -- and all ages in between.

Shoal Creek Church Talladega National Forest, Ala. Sept. 1, 2008 It’s the day after the Young People’s Sacred Harp Singing Convention near Bremen, Ga., an event that helps balance the age ratio. There ...

BREMEN, Ga. (AP) — Singers at Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church in West Georgia treat their red hymnals like extensions of themselves, never straying far from their copies of “The Sacred Harp” ...