Foxfire 11

With this newest volume in the Foxfire series comes a wealth of the kind of folk wisdom and values of simple living that have made these volumes beloved bestsellers for the last three decades, with more than two million copies in print.

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. This new volume—Foxfire 11—celebrates the rituals and recipes of the Appalachian homeplace, including a one-hundred page section on herbal remedies, and segments about planting and growing a garden, preserving and pickling, smoking and salting, honey making, beekeeping, and fishing, as well as hundreds of the kind of spritied 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 life.

With this newest volume in the Foxfire series comes a wealth of the kind of folk wisdom and values of simple living that have made these volumes beloved bestsellers for the last three decades, with more than two million copies in print.

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. This new volume—Foxfire 11—celebrates the rituals and recipes of the Appalachian homeplace, including a one-hundred page section on herbal remedies, and segments about planting and growing a garden, preserving and pickling, smoking and salting, honey making, beekeeping, and fishing, as well as hundreds of the kind of spritied 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 life.

KLIATT

In the late 1960s in the Appalachian Mountains of Georgia, a group of teachers and students created a quarterly magazine named Foxfire. (Foxfire is a phosphorescent lichen found in this area.) Foxfire was created to record the simple life followed in the area for many years and to preserve knowledge of the folk culture for future generations. Eventually, the articles from the magazine were produced as a book and thus the Foxfire series was born. Its popularity became a phenomenon that spread far beyond Georgia. Foxfire 11 is the latest addition to the series. Foxfire fans will find much useful in this new volume. Students are still recording in the field details of a life now long passed. The volume covers farm buildings, wit and wisdom, gardens and farming, preserving and cooking food, technology and tools, and more. Most valuable is possibly the section on wild plant uses. Most unusual is the discussion on planting on the right sign (astrology). Purchase where there is an interest in folk culture and back-to-the-land philosophy. KLIATT Codes: JSA—Recommended for junior and senior high school students, advanced students, and adults. 1999, Random House/Anchor, 313p, illus, 24cm, 99-27305, $15.95. Ages 13 to adult. Reviewer: Carrie Eldridge; Youth Svcs. Libn., San Juan Island, WA, July 2000 (Vol. 34 No. 4)

Kaye Carver Collins is the community and teacher liaison at The Foxfire Fund, Inc. Lacy Hunter is a sophomore at Brenau College in Gainesville, Georgia.