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What is Decoration Day? - UNC Press Blog
Alan Jabbour, who authored Decoration Day in the Mountains: Traditions of Cemetery Decoration in the Southern Appalachians with his wife Karen Singer Jabbour, provides some insight to a grassroots ritual that led to the creation of a federal holiday. --alyssa Many rural community cemeteries in western North Carolina hold "decorations." A decoration is a religious service in the cemetery when people decorate graves to pay respect to the dead. Each cemetery holds its decoration on a traditional calendar day - say, the second Sunday in June. As Decoration Day approaches, people go to clean, repair,...
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