Traditions of Cemetery Decoration in the Southern Appalachians
by
Alan Jabbour, Karen Singer Jabbour
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2010
Decoration Day is a late spring or summer tradition that involves cleaning a community cemetery, decorating it with flowers, holding a religious service in the cemetery, and having dinner on the ground. These commemorations seem to predate the post-Civil War celebrations that ultimately gave us our...