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Category: Christmas traditions

tryon toymakers and woodcarvers booklet cover

The Tryon Toy Makers and Woodcarvers

There is much to admire about Eleanor Vance and Charlotte Yale, the exceptional women who established their Tryon workshop in 1915.

December 3, 2020 Christmas traditions / Georgia

Christmas dawn was just breaking over the blue-hazed mountains

Our socks were filled with stick candy, rag dolls, sling shots, crow calls, whistles, apples, oranges and a few funny looking nuts.

December 2, 2020 Christmas traditions / Food industry / Tennessee

Pure Sugar Stick Candy has Sweetened Many an Appalachian Christmas

While the twin cities of Bristol have come to be known for racing & country music, their candy-making history shouldn’t be overlooked.

Adaland Mansion decked out for Christmas

December 1, 2020 Christmas traditions / West Virginia

The Beautiful Holiday Trees of Adaland Mansion

Each year the staff of Adaland makes changes to what they do for Christmas decorations. But the warmth and love is always a huge part of the display.

Brothers and sisters Burl Hammons, Sherman Hammons, Maggie Hammons Parker, and Ruie Hammons at Burl, Maggie, and Ruie's home in Stillwell, near Marlinton, 1972

December 31, 2018 Christmas traditions / West Virginia

Old Christmas superstition

They claim if the house drips on Old Christmas—not the first Christmas, Old Christmas, that they’ll be a good fruit year, plenty of fruit and mast and everything.

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