Appalachian History

Decoration Day

An important tradition symbolic of the vital place of family in Appalachian life is Decoration Day, usually held on a Sunday in June.

Rose Thompson spent summer of 1946 in Clayton, in Rabun County GA, where an elderly black preacher told her the tale of Fiddler’s Mountain.

A prolific composer, South Carolinian Lily Strickland published 395 musical works for popular, church, and children’s performances.

On July 1, 1915, statewide prohibition went into effect in Alabama, for the second time, five years before the federal prohibition amendment.

Raised a big garden and we’d put it up. And he’d grow a cane patch and make molasses. And we had an orchard there.