http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:1uKzC3h5SjoJ:www.lds.org/placestovisit/location/0,10634,1828-1-1-1,00.html+religious+revivals%2Bupstate+ny%2B1820s&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3During the 1820s, upstate New York experienced a period of religious revivals. Joseph Smith Jr., a 14-year-old boy, lived in Palmyra, where he attended the services of various religions.  Slightly later, 1839, but you get the idea--Religious Revival in America
In 1839 J. Maze Burbank exhibited at the Royal Society in London this watercolor of "a camp meeting, or religious revival in America, from a sketch taken on the spot." It is not known where, when, or under whose auspices the revival painted by Burbank occurred.
 Below, around same time as young loon Smith was hearing schizo voices in his head, 1819--Methodist camp meeting, March 1, 1819
Engraving
Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. (186) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Smith,_Jr. Joseph Smith, Jr. was born on December 23, 1805, in Sharon, Vermont to Joseph Smith, Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith. After his birth, the family moved to western New York, where they continued farming just outside the border of the town of Palmyra. This region was an area of intense revivalism and religious diversity during the Second Great Awakening. Although Smith had limited involvement with organized religion during his youth, he studied the Bible, held religious opinions, and was influenced by the common folk religion of the area.http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:-bmJKyJnGcUJ:www.teachushistory.org/second-great-awakening-age-reform/articles/religious-revivals-revivalism-1830s-new-england+religious+revivals%2Bupstate+ny%2B1820s&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1 Perhaps the most intense and dramatic example of revivalism, and certainly the best known, occurred in upstate New York, in "the burnt-over district."