Decoration Day in the Mountains: Traditions of Cemetery Decoration in the Southern Appalachians

Abstract

[...]on page 38, the author states that he suggests the term "assemblage style" to refer to the modern custom of adorning graves with objects, notes, and personal mementos. here duty compels me to point out that this idea was presented earlier, in an article by Jean- nie banks thomas called "communicative communication and Graveside Shrines: Prin- cess Diana, Jim morrison, my 'bro' max and boogs the cat," in a volume i edited (Spontane- ous Shrines and the Public Memorialization of Death, Palgrave macmillan, 2006), and also that i developed the idea of the "folk assemblage" as a genre in a 1992 article "The Folk Assemblage of Autumn" (in Folk Art and Art Worlds, John michael Vlach and Simon J. bronner, eds., utah State university Press, 1992).