Foxfire books
The series of six
Foxfire Books, published in the
United States in the early
1970s, were an effort to document the lifestyle, culture, and skills of people in the
Appalachian Mountains, especially through the use of
oral history. The books were edited by Eliot Wigginton, a high school teacher, based on articles his students had written that were previously published in magazine form.
Though conceived primarily as a sociological work, the books were a commercial success as instructional works. The back to the land movement used them as a blueprint for their attempts at a journey back to roots they did not know.
Additional volumes in the series (numbers 7 through 11 and other unnumbered volumes) were published later with the involvement of new authors and editors.
The town of Foxfire, North Carolina was incorporated some years after the publication of the books.
The Foxfire Books
- The Foxfire Book, 1972, Anchor. ISBN 0385073534
- Foxfire 2, 1973, Anchor. ISBN 0385022670
- Foxfire 3, 1975, Anchor. ISBN 0385022727
- Foxfire 4, 1977, Anchor. ISBN 0385120877
- Foxfire 5
- Foxfire 6
- Foxfire 7, 1982, Doubleday. ISBN 0385152434
- Aunt Arie: A Foxfire Portrait, 1983, Dutton. ISBN 0525932925
- Foxfire 8, 1984, Anchor. ISBN 0385177410
- Foxfire 9, 1986, Anchor. ISBN 0385177437
- Foxfire 10, 1993, Anchor. ISBN 0385422768
- The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Cookery, 1992, University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0807843954
- The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Toys & Games, 1993, University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 080784425X
- A Foxfire Christmas, 1996, University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 080784618X
- Foxfire 11, 1999, Anchor. ISBN 0385494610
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