Stony Brook Assembly
The Stony Brook Assembly was an evangelical organization that held a series of annual summer Bible Academic conference, Conferences and camp meetings in Stony Brook, New York, Stony Brook, New York (state), NY on Long Island from 1909 to 1958. Nationally and internationally known speakers led conferences covering topics on religious, educational, and social reform. The assembly was also the parent organization which founded The Stony Brook School to use its grounds outside of the summer months. Though the assembly dissolved, the school still remains today. History Beginning in the late nineteenth century, a number of summer religious retreats and camp meetings were founded following the tradition of the Keswick Convention, Keswick movement in England and the Chautauqua movement in the United States. Other notable conferences were founded at such places as Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY, Winona Lake, IN, and Northfield, MA, grew in popularity as places of physical rest, ...
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