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Foxfire 7 / edited with an introduction by Paul F. Gillespie.
LIBRA BR563.M68 F69 1982
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Appalachians (People)--Religion.
- Appalachians (People).
- Religion.
- Christianity--Appalachian Region, Southern.
- Christianity.
- Southern Appalachian Region.
- Appalachian Region, Southern--Religious life and customs.
- Appalachian Region, Southern.
- Appalachian Region, Southern--Church history.
- Church history.
- Physical Description:
- 510 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1982.
- 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 seventh volume celebrates the spiritual heritage of Appalachia, and includes sections on baptisms, foot washing, and the songs and rituals of a variety of organized religions in the region-from Baptists to Methodists to Pentecostals to Presbyterians-as well as a variety of the kind of spirited firsthand narrative accounts from Appalachian community members that exemplify the Foxfire style.
- Contents:
- Religious Denominations 28
- Baptists 28
- Ben Cook, Southern Baptist
- Bly Owens, Southern Baptist
- Joe Bishop, Southern Baptist
- Howard Southards, Independent Baptist
- Howard Parham, Primitive Baptist
- Lystra Primitive Baptist Church
- Clyde Nations, Jr., Ted Laney and Clyde Nations, Sr., Free Will Baptists
- Selma Mosely, Black Baptist
- Beulah Perry, Black Baptist
- Catholics 104
- Lina Davis, Roman Catholic
- Church of Christ 110
- Wayne Rawlings, Church of Christ
- Episcopalians 118
- Rufus Morgan, Episcopalian
- Jehovah's Witnesses 139
- Ernest Clark, Ruth Stockton and Reppie Jones, Jehovah's Witnesses
- Methodists 170
- E. L. Adams, Methodist
- Julie Mcclure, Methodist
- Conley Henry, Methodist
- Leonard Vissage, Methodist
- E. C. Presley, Methodist
- Pentecostals 198
- Ray Dryman, Church of God
- Toliver Vinson, Church of God
- Granny Reed, Church of God
- Jake Quilliams, Church of God
- Charles Lee, Fire Baptized Holiness Church
- Presbyterians 233
- L. B. Gibbs, Presbyterian
- Clyde Hicks, Presbyterian
- Sid Mccarty, Presbyterian
- The Camp Meeting 265
- Loudsville Methodist Campground 267
- Cullasaja Assembly of God Campmeeting and Campground 274
- The Tradition of Shaped-Note Music 280
- Singers of Shaped-Note Music 293
- Christian Harmony, Richard Moss Christian Harmony, Quay Smathers
- "I Love to Sing..." 299
- Gospel Shaped Note Music 304
- Jim Raby, Henry Fountain, Aunt Addie Norton, Lonnie Smith, Horage Page, Hyman Brown, Esco Pitts, Ernest Watts, Ferd Watts and Wilbur Maney
- Baptism 347
- Foot Washing 351
- The People Who Take Up Serpents 370
- A Church of God 372
- Dinner on the Grounds 421
- Sunday Night 423.
- Notes:
- "Contains articles first published in Foxfire magazine"--Verso t.p.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0385152434 :
- OCLC:
- 8237255
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