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Years ago, Christmas celebrations in the town of Washington were marked by bonfires in the streets. And if teachers at the Rabbit Gum Academy didn't give the students a holiday, it was said that the boys would lock the doors and not let their instructors inside, according to Mrs. Frank Moffett’s history of the town’s first school.
Mrs. Mary Jordan of Flint Hill remembers past country Christmases as much busier times with more hours filled by expressions of the season’s theme of love and brotherhood. “We used to go visit people and sing and pray with them. And we did this about every day starting the week before Christmas and running until New Years. But not so much is going on anymore,” she said. “People keep to themselves a lot more than they used to. We still to out caroling and visit the hospital in Front Royal. And on the 27th, there's a meeting at the American Legion Post: the young ones and the old ones come and there’s singing and telling jokes. But there’s still not as much going on. Used to be something happening all the time—every day during the Christmas holiday.”
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