Christmas in Appalachia is about taking the time to get re-acquainted with ourselves, our family, our friends, and our community.

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About: Christmas in Appalachia

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For 40 weeks of the year from 1978 to 1998, Roadside Theater toured the U.S. performing its plays and conducting community residencies. When the ensemble wasn't touring, company members wrote and produced new plays and performed and conducted

Script: Mummer's Play

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The Mummer's Play is often one part of Roadside Theater's Christmas in Appalachia performance. The characters are played by local children, but sometimes adults like to get into the act as well.

Christmas in Appalachia

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In December 2013, Christmas in Appalachia was scripted and performed in: Blackey, Kentucky at the Indian Bottom Old Regular Baptist Church Clintwood, Virginia at the Jettie Baker Center Pennington Gap, Virginia at the Lee Theater

Appalachian Christmas Traditions, History, and Legends

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CHRISTMAS IN CENTRAL APPALACHIA Here in the mountains we had our own way of celebrating Christmas, but in recent years we’ve begun to lose some of our traditions. Christmas in Central Appalachia,

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