The Foxfire Book: Hog Dressing, Log Cabin Building, Mountain Crafts and Foods, Planting by the Signs, Snake Lore, Hunting Tales, Faith Healing, Moonshining
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- ISBN13: 9780385073530
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
In the late 1960s, Eliot Wigginton and his students made the magazine Foxfire in an effort to record and preserve the traditional folk culture of the Southern Appalachians. 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, and “additional affairs of unadorned living.”
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I heard about this book and thought, “OH I’m from the South and this book will be lovely to read to find out about how things used to be.” And I would probably have been right if I could have made out what they were talking about. The slang is much too thick for me. I’m not sure anyone could know it except people who really are from this region. Thumbs down for no translation.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
With the economy going the way it is – and people trying to find more ways to save money, eat more healthy foods and cut down on the questionable drugs and sweeteners – The foxfire book series is FULL of appealing and helpful knowledge. I gave my first one away years ago and now I am slowly replacing every one. excellent book to have in every home.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
This is a wonderful book complied from “mountain people” who lived in a time when everything was not simple and nothing was free. It relates information on how to live and the knowledge gained over generations about what works and what doesn’t work. Some may reflect that this is information of folklore, but these are the practices and ways that I remember the ancient people using when I grew up. If you are wanting to learn the “ancient fashioned way”, this is a fantastic source of information that is tried and right.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I was really glad to find this and additional books in this series at such fantastic prices. My spouse just likes the Foxfire series of books on mountain lore. It is incredible what life was like in the Appalachia Mountains and just how they made a life for themselves and their families. I like all the quilting squares that are in this book. Some of them I haven’t seen since I was a small girl and my grandmother made quilts. I plot tobuy my spouse more of these books in the future since he likes them so much and you would be surprised at what you can learn from them that will help you in your day to day life even now.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
It could all change. How you live, how much you provide for yourself. Whether or not you can erect your own shelter, feed and clothe your family tree, and tend to simple health remedies. You don’t have to reinvent the veer. It is already turning. Read about persons who spoked it. Relearn their lessons and your own past heritage.
Maybe 2012 is just a Mayan myth. Maybe it’s not. Take a look at the world lacking WalMart, or cities, or a stock market.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5