foxfire

My Dad loaned me a couple of books from his series of Foxfire books after we had discussed the video of Wallace Gusler. This series is really interesting and I'm sure anyone who is looking for a return to simpler times will enjoy these. Here is a link to a blog that has a few of the books available for download.

From Wikipedia...

"The Foxfire books are a series of anthologies of articles from Foxfire magazine. The first book of the series was published in 1972. As of 2004, the most recent is Foxfire 12; also as of that date, there are nearly nine million copies of the various books in print.

The series is an effort to document the lifestyle, culture, and skills of people in southern Appalachia in a mixture of how-to information andfirst-person narratives and oral history.

Topics covered in the books include:

apple butter

banjos

basket weaving

beekeeping

butter churning

corn shucking

dulcimers

faith healing

fiddle making

ginseng cultivation

long rifle and flintlock making

hide tanning

hog dressing

hunting tales

log cabin building

moonshining

midwives

old-time burial customs

planting "by the signs"

preserving foods

sassafras tea

shoe making

snake handling and lore

soap making

spinning

square dancing

wagon making

weaving

wild food gathering

witches

wood carving