| Details | | Publication Date: | 1999-10-01 | | Series: | Foxfire | | Editor: | Kaye Carver Collins, Lacy Hunter |
| Size | | Length: | 313 pages | | Height: | 9.8 in | | Width: | 6.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 19.2 oz |
Publisher's Note In 1966, during his first year of teaching ninth and tenth-grade English at a 250-pupil high school in the Appalachian Mountains of northeast Georgia, Eliot Wigginton and his students founded a quarterly magazine that they named Foxfire, after a phosphorescent lichen. The magazine, which featured interviews by students with older community residents about Appalachian traditions, folklore, and material culture, struggled for years to stay afloat. In 1972, a selection of articles from the magazine was published in book form and The Foxfire Book -- and the acclaimed multivolume Foxfire series -- was born.
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.
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