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December 11, 2012

North Carolina Icons: Appalachian Trail, Part 3: Food, Culture, Traditions

Our North Carolina icons feature this week focuses on food, games, and culture of the Appalachian region. Continue Reading North Carolina Icons: Appalachian Trail, Part 3: Food, Culture, Traditions

Appalachian Studies/Cooking / Food/folklore/Juvenile/North Carolina

What is Decoration Day?

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… Continue Reading What is Decoration Day?

American History/American Studies/Appalachian Studies/Author blog entry/Cultural Studies/folklore/Guest Bloggers/North Carolina/Southern Studies