The Foxfire Books

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Our customer service staff has selected the Foxfire Book series because these books are an important recorded chronicle of useful country living information and are of historical value.
In 1966, in the Appalachian Mountains of Northeast Georgia, Eliot Wigginton and his students founded a quarterly magazine that they named Foxfire, after a phosphorescent lichen. In 1972, several articles from the magazine were published in book form, and the acclaimed Foxfire series was born. Almost thirty years later, in this age of technology and cyber-living, the books teach a philosophy of simplicity in living that is truly enduring in its appeal. This series has sold over six million copies, a testimony to this series popularity.
These books are a written recording of a series of interviews conducted over several years with the rural mountain country people of the Great Smoky Mountains. The people interviewed were skilled in one or more specific handycrafts, a particular skill, or had specific knowledge of mountain folk living and customs. These books record these interviews with text and black and white photographs and illustrations. These books were not meant to be a series of specific how-to-do books, rather they are a recording of country living methods and skills gathered and used over the years by the Appalachian mountain folks, and how these skills and methods were used by the people at the time. In fact, the style of living and many of the skills and ideas recorded are still being used today.
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The Foxfire Books Series

• The Foxfire Book ~Usually Ships in 24 Hours
-Eliot Wigginton, Editor / Paperback 384 pages / Published March 1972
This is the original book dealing with the "affairs of plain living" in the Great Smoky Mountains of Eastern North America.
This book covers Hog Dressing, Log Cabin Building, Mountain Crafts & Food, Planting gardens by the signs, Snake lore, Hunting tales, Faith Healing, Moon Signs, and more.
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• Foxfire Book 2 ~Usually Ships in 24 Hours
-Eliot Wigginton, Editor / Paperback 416 pages / Published June 1973
This is the second book dealing with the "affairs of plain living" in the Great Smoky Mountains of Eastern North America.
This book covers Ghost Stories, Spring Wild Plant Foods, Spinning and Weaving, Midwifing, Burial Customs, Corn Shuckin's, Wagon Making and more.
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• Foxfire Book 3 ~Usually Ships in 24 Hours
-Eliot Wigginton, Editor / Paperback 512 pages / Published August 1975
This is the third book dealing with the "affairs of plain living" in the Great Smoky Mountains of Eastern North America.
This book covers Animal Care, Banjos and Dulcimers, Hide Tanning, Summer and Fall Wild PlantFoods, Butter churns, Ginseng, and more.
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• Foxfire Book 4 ~Usually Ships in 24 Hours
-Eliot Wigginton, Editor / Paperback 496 pages / Published November 1977
This is the fourth book dealing with the "affairs of plain living" in the Great Smoky Mountains of Eastern North America.
This book covers Fiddle making, Apringhouses, Horse trading, Sassafras tea, Berry buckets, Gardening, and more.
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• Foxfire Book 5 ~Usually Ships in 24 Hours
-Eliot Wigginton, Editor / Paperback 512 pages / Published June 1979
This is the fifth book dealing with the "affairs of plain living" in the Great Smoky Mountains of Eastern North America.
This book covers Ironmaking, Blacksmithing, Flintlock rifles, Bear hunting, and more.
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• Foxfire Book 6 ~Usually Ships in 24 Hours
-Eliot Wigginton, Editor / Paperback 512 pages, 2nd Edition / Published September 1980
This is the sixth book dealing with the "affairs of plain living" in the Great Smoky Mountains of Eastern North America.
This book covers Shoemaking, 100 Toys & Games, Gourd banjos and Song bows, Wooden looks, a Water Powered Sawmill, and and other fascinating topics.
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• Foxfire Book 7 ~Usually Ships in 24 Hours
-Eliot Wigginton, Editor, et al / Paperback 512 pages / Published March 1982
This is the seventh book dealing with the "affairs of plain living" in the Great Smoky Mountains of Eastern North America.
This book presents the mountain religious traditions and heritage, covers ministers, revivals, baptisms, gospel singing, faith healing, snake handling, and more.
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• Foxfire Book 8 ~Usually Ships in 24 Hours
-Eliot Wigginton, Editor, et al / Paperback 512 pages / Published April 1984
This is the eighth book dealing with the "affairs of plain living" in the Great Smoky Mountains of Eastern North America.
This book covers making pottery in pug mills, groundhog kilns, churns, mule swapping, chichen fighting, and more.
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• Foxfire Book 9 ~Usually Ships in 2-3 Days
-Eliot Wigginton, Editor, et al / Paperback 512 pages / Published October 1986
This is the ninth book dealing with the "affairs of plain living" in the Great Smoky Mountains of Eastern North America.
This book covers general stores, the Jud Newson wagon, a praying rock, a Catawba indian potter, quilting, home cures, log cabin revisited, and more.
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• Foxfire Book 10 ~Usually Ships in 24 Hours
-George P. Reynolds, Editor, et al / Paperback 512 pages / Published April 1993
This is the tenth book in this series dealing with the "affairs of plain living" in the Great Smoky Mountains of Eastern North America.
This book covers railroad lore, boardinghouses, depression-era Appalachia, chair making, whirligigs, snale canes, gourd art, and more.
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• Foxfire Book 11 ~Usually Ships in 24 Hours
-Kaye Carver Collins, Editor, et al / Paperback 512 pages / Published November 1999
FoxFire 11 covers the rituals and recipes of the Appalachian homeplace, farm buildings, planting and growing a garden, planting on the right sign of the moon, includes a one-hundred page section on herbal remedies and wild plant uses, and segments about cooking food, preserving and pickling, smoking and salting, honey making, beekeeping, and fishing, as well as hundreds of the kind of spirited firsthand narrative accounts from Appalachian community members that exemplify the Foxfire style.
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• Foxfire Book 12 ~Usually Ships in 24 Hours
-The Staff of Foxfire Fund Inc. / Paperback 576 pages / Published September 2004
FoxFire 12 covers rich collection of information and stories from a fascinating part of American culture. Records a rich assortment of Appalachian Mountain characters and and veterans recount their war experiences. Others reminiscences about learning to square dance and tell tales about traditional craftsmen who created useful items in the old-time ways that have since disappeared in most of the country. Included are lessons on how to make rose beads and wooden coffins, and on how to find turtles in your local pond. Also records the voices of descendants of the Cherokees who lived in the region, and learn about what summer camp was like for generations of youngsters.
Illustrated with photographs and drawings.
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• The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Toys & Games
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-Linda Garland Page, Hilton Smith / Paperback 224 pages / Published October 1993
This interesting book is a fine collection of indoor and outdoor games. Includes making cornstalk dolls, honemade board games, play houses, and other toys. Complete instructions for each game or toy are included.
Every toy and game has been tested and is devised to be made or played by yourself and with playmates, all without major expense, complicate parts, or electricity. Games include marbles, hopscotch, horseshoes, stealing the pines, farmer in the dell, crows and cranes, thimble, and many many more.
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• The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Cookery ~Usually Ships in 24 Hours
-Linda Garland Page (Editor), Eliot Wigginton
Hardcover 327 pages / Published September 2001
This delightfull cookbook contains over 500 recipes preserving and recording Appalachian cooking. Illustrated with photographs of the people, kitchens, and foods of the appalachian mountain folks. Dishes prepared from these recipes are nutritious as well as tasty.
Includes such unually recipes as rhubarb cobbler, potato candy, cry-baby cookies, and lime pickles.
B/W photographs throughout.
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