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OverviewFiddle making, spring houses, horse trading, sassafras tea, berry buckets, gardening, and other affairs of plain living are the topics covered in this volume. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Foxfire Fund, Inc. , Eliot WiggintonPublisher: Random House USA Inc Imprint: Anchor Books Volume: 4 Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.533kg ISBN: 9780385120876ISBN 10: 0385120877 Pages: 496 Publication Date: 01 November 1977 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationThe Foxfire Fund is a nonprofit organization that has been preserving and fostering Appalachian culture through its bestselling series of anthologies, starting with The Foxfire Bookin the early 1970s.The FoxfireMuseum and Heritage Centeris located in Mountain City, Georgia. www.foxfire.org Eliot Wiggintonis an American oral historian and teacher who developed the Foxfire Project. In the 1960s he began a writing project with his students atRabun Gap Nacoochee School that collected stories from local residents in Rabun County, Georgia, in southern Appalachia. By 1967, these stories were being published as a quarterly magazine calledFoxfire, which gained a national following for its chronicling of rural life in Appalachia and other local histories. The first anthology ofFoxfirearticles was published in 1972. Wigginton was named Georgia Teacher of the Year in 1986 and received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1989. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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