Job's Temple

The official close of each year's Folk Festival is the service at historic Job's Temple. The service honors the Folk Festival Belles.

Job's Temple was established in the late 1850's when congregants with southern sympathies withdrew from Pisgah Methodist Episopal Church - located approximately two miles east of the Job's Temple site. Job's Temple, now on the National Register of Historic Places, was finished after the men returned to the community following the Civil War.

The earliest interment in the cemetery is that of Margaret Ann Stalnaker Pickens, who died February 13, 1870. She was born in 1852. There are over 140 graves.

Fran Schmetzer was a greeter at the service. The church is a really neat experience.

The minister of this day was Rev. Doris Brunty. She did a fantastic job! Her message involved the legacies that are important in our lives. What a great closing to the 2009 West Virginia State Folk Festival!