Appalachian History

Did You See My Girls on the Radio?

January 2, 1938: It’s Wheeling Steel, a live radio program from the Capitol Theater in Wheeling, premiered nationwide on the Mutual Network.

The custom of using a baby to signify the New Year originated in ancient Greece, the baby symbolizing in this case not birth, but re-birth.

The Christmas plant named for Joel Poinsett is such a footnote to his illustrious life that it’s mentioned only ONCE in an 1888 biography.

The elders bloom upon the ground/And critters low and kneel around/In every stall, though none I know/Has seen them kneel, or heard them low.

Appalachian mummer’s plays are direct descendants of British Christmas masking, or “mumming,” which can be traced to the English court.

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