This is from Fay's oral history about Christmas in Lava while she was growing up.

Fay says, "I don't remember much about Christmas, only that we went to church. Oh yes, we always had a big Christmas tree in the middle of the school auditorium. They had a Christmas Party, I remember that. Sometimes practically the whole town came. Then Santa Clause would come and hand out things and we would get to dance around the Christmas Tree. The tree was always put in the middle of the hall, never in a corner. My memory, when I was just little tiny, was dancing around that Christmas Tree at that Christmas Party. That school was the only place big enough to have any kind of community party because the church was too little.

From Ariel Ardell Byington's history:

We all know that years ago it was always very snowy in Lava in the winter. The steep hills would get very slick. Ardell tells a story about taking his mother (grandma Sarah) home from a short trip. She thinks that they had been to Pocatello. Grandma Sarah's house was up on one of those steep hills in Lava. Ardell says that in the wintertime they disconnected their brakes because using them just caused them to slide out of control.

As they were getting ready to go up the hill to take Grandma Sarah home. Ardell says, "We would start from the bridge and get up speed to make it up the hill. This particular time--I don't know what had happened that got my mother excited, but she reached over to grab the steering wheel."

Fay (Ardell's wife) had all that she could do to keep Grandma Sarah's hands off of the steering wheel.

Ardell says,"Through the excitement and everything we couldn't make it up the hill. We started spinning. Of course, we didn't have any brakes to help us and all that we could do was slide back down the hill really fast. My mother was scared plum to death. The next attempt we made was to go up the hill the other way and back to her house. Finally, we made it."