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Film, Video Decoration Day in the Mountains

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Title

  • Decoration Day in the Mountains

Summary

  • Decoration Day is a late spring or summer tradition that involves cleaning community cemeteries, decorating them with flowers, holding religious services in cemeteries, and having dinner on the ground. These commemorations seem to predate the post-Civil-War celebrations that ultimately gave us our national Memorial Day. Little has been written about this tradition, but it is still practiced widely throughout the Upland South, from North Carolina to the Ozarks and beyond.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • American Folklife Center, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2011-07-07.

Headings

  • -  Cities, Towns
  • -  Culture, Folklife
  • -  Culture, Performing Arts

Notes

  • -  Classification: History: America.
  • -  Classification: Social Sciences.
  • -  Alan Jabbour, Alan Jabbour.
  • -  Recorded on 2011-07-07.
  • -  Kids, Families.
  • -  Researchers.
  • -  Teachers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021688704

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body American Folklife Center. Decoration Day in the Mountains. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -07-07, 2011. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688704/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & American Folklife Center, S. B. (2011) Decoration Day in the Mountains. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -07-07. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688704/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body American Folklife Center. Decoration Day in the Mountains. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -07-07, 2011. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021688704/>.