Foxfire 8 / edited by Eliot Wigginton and Margie Bennett ; with an introduction by Eliot Wigginton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wigginton, Eliot.

Bennett, Margie.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Country life--Appalachian Region, Southern.

Country life.

Handicraft--Appalachian Region, Southern.

Handicraft.

Folklore--Appalachian Region, Southern.

Folklore.

Appalachian Region, Southern--Social life and customs.

Appalachian Region, Southern.

Southern Appalachian Region.

Manners and customs.

Physical Description:

510 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Foxfire eight.

Place of Publication:

Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1984.

Summary:

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. Some thirty years later, 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 living. This eighth volume celebrates the artistic and skillful heritage of Appalachia, and includes sections on Southern folk pottery (from glazed snake jars to swirlware to flowerpots); chicken fighting, breeding, and conditioning; as well as a variety of the kind of spirited firsthand narrative accounts from Appalachian community members that exemplify the Foxfire style.

Contents:

Blacks in Appalachia 23

Anna Tutt 25

Bruce Mosley 38

Harley Penland 46

Carrie Stewart 51

Viola Lenoir 61

Southern Folk Pottery 71

An Appreciation / John A. Burrison 71

The Meaders Pottery (Cleveland, Georgia) 81

Arie Meaders 90

Cheever and Lanier Meaders 122

Edwin Meaders 171

Burlon and Irene Craig (Vail, North Carolina) 209

Norman and Irene Smith (Lawley, Alabama) 256

The Wilson, Hewell, and Brown Potteries 287

The Wilson Pottery (Lula, Georgia) 290

H. A. and Monteen Wilson 290

Jimmy Wilson, Michael Crocker 304

The Hewell Pottery (Gillsville, Georgia) 320

Ada Hewell 320

Henry, Grace, and Chester Hewell 329

The Brown Pottery (Arden, North Carolina) 345

Louis and Charlie Brown 345

Cockfighting 385

Part I Breeds, Breeding, Selling, Raising, Combs, Conditioning, Fighting, and the Law 385

Part II Paul B. Stamey, Chicken Fighter 446

Part III Rex Duvall, Chicken Fighter 473

"Let Me Tell You About This Mule" 488.

Notes:

"Contains articles first published in Foxfire magazine"--T.p. verso.

Includes index.

Related Work:

Cooper, Susan. Foxfire.

ISBN:

0385177410

OCLC:

9759492