The Foxfire Book: hog dressing, log cabin building, mountain crafts and foods, planting by the signs, snake lore, hunting tales, faith healing, moonshining, and other affairs of plain living.
Garden City, N.Y. Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1972. Octavo (24 x 16.5 cm.), 384 pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. The first of the series of twelve Foxfire Books (and a few related spinoffs), which grew out of the original Foxfire magazine, a project started in 1967 and produced by students in rural Georgia with the help of their teacher, Eliot Wigginton. The students researched and recorded the stories of Appalachian oldways.....