The Foxfire Book Set

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The Foxfire Book Volumes 1,2,3 Edited by Eliot Wigginton

Hog dressing, log cabin building, mountain crafts & foods, planting by the signs, snake lore, hunting tales, faith healin.

The foxfire book set. Along with our own bestselling series of the foxfire books and our companion titles, such as our cookbooks and winemaking book, we also carry a number of titles covering a range of topics related to the foxfire mission. Growing up in rural kentucky, i had read the first foxfire book as a child. Includes all 12 foxfire books.

Livestock, banjos, edible plants, butter churns*. Free priority mail shipping to u.s. I highly encourage anyone interested in living off the grid to read these.

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, foods, planting by the signs, snake lore, hunting tales, faith. Hog dressing, log cabin building snake lore, moonshining, ghost stories, spinning and weaving,banjos and dulcimers, butter churns, ginseng and other affairs of plain living, over 1300 pages, many illustrations. Vittles, log cabins, crafts, planting by signs.

Here’s your chance to get the most complete collection of published information on the heritage of the southern appalachian mountains and save a few dollars doing it. Edible plants, beekeeping, wagon making, weaving. 2d 11h left (thu, 01:23 pm) 13 bids.

They are kinda expensive as individual purchases, but these are heirloom quality items; The foxfire book series, vol. I would rather have the first four foxfire.

I picked up the rest of the set over the next few years and was fascinated by them all. 1972, '73, '75, '77, '79, '80,'82, '84, and 1986. They taught me how to make moonshine, trap critters, and everything else you can imagine.

By multiple authors includes books the foxfire book, foxfire 2, foxfire 3, and several more. Great deals on foxfire books. All based on appalachian history and folklore.

5.0 out of 5 stars. I can't wait to read the whole set! Hog dressing, wild plants, folklore, etc.

Eliot wigginton, foxfire students, foxfire fund inc., angie cheek, kaye carver collins. See the complete the foxfire series book list in order, box sets or omnibus editions, and companion titles. A complete set of the original anchor paperbacks of the foxfire series.

Foxfire started as a class project at a georgia high school — students interviewed neighbors and wrote a series of articles, which turned into a quarterly magazine and then a book, in 1972, with. Half cloth, blindstamped publisher logo on front boards. Making knives, fiddles, cheese, traps, plows.

The foxfire book of appalachian toys and games book description : Fast & free shipping on many items! Put together back in the 60's, it documents life in the appalachian mountians of the people that live there.

Additionally, we carry titles from local authors and/or organizations who have partnered with foxfire or worked. Part oral history and part rule book, the foxfire book of appalachian toys and games is a joyous collection of memories of playing indoor and outdoor games; Foxfire books for sale | ebay

Edgewear to dust jackets on all volumes including some. Reading it again at 40 was a delight! Needless to say, i never got around to building my still, but my interest in the tradition of oral history was fired in a big way.

These were based on articles by high. The foxfire books were one of the sources that i turned to in an effort to learn about the process. Ghost stories, spring wild plant foods, spinning and weaving, midwifing, burial customs, corn shuckin's, wagon making and more affairs of plain living.

The Foxfire Book Volume 1 Vintage 1972 AO36 Plain Living