![]() ![]() ![]() This second volume celebrates the rites and customs of Appalachia, and includes sections on old-time burials, midwives, granny women, witches, and haints - as well as a variety of the kind of spirited firsthand narrative accounts from Appalachian community members that exemplify the Foxfire style. Much more than "how to" books, the Foxfire series is a publishing phenomenon and a way of life, teaching creative self-sufficiency, the art of natural remedies, home crafts, and other country folkways, fascinating to everyone interested in rediscovering the virtues of simple living. ![]() Some thirty years later, the books continue to teach a philosophy of simplicity in living that is truly enduring in its appeal. In 1972, several articles from the magazine were published in book form and the acclaimed Foxfire series was born. Foxfire 2: Ghost Stores, Spring Wild Plant Foods, Spinning and Weaving. In 1966, in the Appalachian Mountains of Northeast Georgia, a teacher and his students founded a quarterly magazine that they named Foxfire, after a phosphorescent lichen. Buy Foxfire 2 by Foxfire Fund, Inc., Eliot Wigginton from Waterstones today. ![]()
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