The foxfire book

"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. In 1972, several articles from the magazine were published in book form and the acclaimed Foxfire series was born ... the books continue to teach a philosophy of simplicity in living that is truly enduring in its appeal. 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 life"--Page 4 of cover.

"Materials in the books originally appeared in the Foxfire Magazine".

Editors for later volumes include Paul F. Gillespie, Margie Bennett, George P. Reynolds, Susan Walker, Kaye Carver Collins, Lacy Hunter, and Angie Cheek.

Bk.1. Hog dressing; log cabin building; mountain crafts and foods; planting by the signs; snake lore, hunting tales, faith healing; moonshining; and other affairs of plain living -- Bk.2. ghost stories, spring wild plant foods, spining and weaving, mid-wifing, burial customs, cornshuckin's wagon making and more affairs of plain living -- Bk.3. animal care, banjos and dulcimers, hide tanning, summer and fall wild plant foods, butter churns, ginseng, and still more affairs of plain living -- Bk.4. fiddle making, springhouses, horse trading, sassafras tea, berry buckets, gardening, and further affairs of plain living -- Bk.5. ironmaking, blacksmithing, flintlock rifles, bear hunting, and other affairs of plain living -- Bk.6. shoemaking, gourd banjos, and songbows, one hundred toys and games, wooden locks, a water powered sawmill, and other affairs of just plain living -- Bk.7. Ministers and church members, revivals and baptisms, shaped-note and gospel singing, faith healing and, camp meetings, footwashing, snake handling, and other traditions of mountain religious heritage -- Bk.8. Southern folk pottery from pug mills, ash glazes, and groundhog kilns to face jugs, churns, and rooste…