‘Go Tell It on the Mountain’
By Tim Colliver - tcolliver@aimmediamidwest.com
One of the many nativity displays that appear in the front yards of Highland County homes, this one is on US 50 just east of Hillsboro.
Tim Colliver | The Times-Gazette
Editor’s Note: It’s been said that Christmas is one of the few holidays that has its own “soundtrack.” The Times-Gazette today presents part 10 of a special 12-part series entitled “The 12 Carols of Christmas” that will appear daily through Christmas Eve, relating the stories behind some of the best-loved sacred songs of the season.
The Negro spiritual, a unique form of American hymnology, paved the way for a popular Christmas carol that had been performed by the Jubilee Singers of Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee as far back as 1879.