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Atlas Obscura - Latest • Jan. 12, 2026, 2:51 a.m.

The Women Who Saved the Fasnacht Festival

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Listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , and all major podcast apps. Kelly McEvers: It’s a chilly day in a tiny town in West Virginia in the Appalachian Mountains.

Winter is almost over. In the middle of town is this little wooden dance hall that was built in 1910.

Inside there are fiddles playing and feet stomping on the floorboards. Clara Lehmann: And then the sun starts to go down and the doors of the dance hall open.

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