Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Foxfire 5

  • Foxfire Classic
In the late 1960s, Eliot Wigginton and his students created the magazine Foxfire in an effort to record and preserve the traditional folk culture of the Southern Appalachians. This is the original book compilation of Foxfire material which introduces Aunt Arie and her contemporaries and includes log cabin building, hog dressing, snake lore, mountain crafts and food, and "other affairs of plain living."This second Foxfire volume includes topics such as ghost stories, spinning and weaving, wagon making, midwifing, corn shuckin', and more.Volume 3 of this series covers animal care, banjos and dulcimers, wild plant foods, butter churns, ginseng and more.Fiddle making, spring houses, horse trading, sassafras tea, berry buckets, gardening, and other affairs of plain living are the topics covered in this volume.The fifth Foxfire volume includes rain-making, blacksmithin! g, bear hunting, flintlock rifles, and more.

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