Appalachian History

Breakin’ up Christmas

Breakin’ Up Christmas is the name for 12 days of partying, dancing, and music making ending up on January 6th, Old Christmas day.

WV petroglyphs remain for all to see, challenging those who view them to tease out the identity of the person or persons who carved them.

Since you saved the Holy Family, from now on we’ll call you & all your kin the Holy Tree. But it’ll change from Holy tree to Holly tree.

Though few Civil War battles were fought there, SW Virginia was critical to the Confederacy. One reason was the salt works in Saltville.

The marble-take-marble world of commies, steelies, aggies and glassies kept children hunkered in the dirt and out of trouble.