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.