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The Foxfire book: hog dressing; log cabin building; mountain crafts and foods; planting by the signs; snake lore, hunting tales, faith healing; moonshining; and other affairs of plain living. / Edited with an introd. by Eliot Wigginton.
LIBRA S521.5.G4 F6
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Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection F291.2 .F6
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Country life--Georgia--Rabun Gap.
- Country life.
- Handicraft--Georgia--Rabun Gap.
- Handicraft.
- Country life--Georgia.
- Georgia--Social life and customs.
- Georgia.
- Manners and customs.
- Georgia--Rabun Gap.
- Physical Description:
- 384 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Place of Publication:
- Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1972.
- Summary:
- Interviews and essays describe the way of life and crafts of pioneer America still surviving in the Appalachian region.
- Contents:
- Aunt Arie
- Wood
- Tools and skills
- Building a log cabin
- Chimney building
- White oak splits
- Making a hamper out of white oak splits
- Making a basket out of white oak splits
- An old chair maker shows how
- Rope, straw, and feathers are to sleep on
- A quilt is something human
- soapmaking
- Cooking on a fireplace, dutch oven, and wood stove
- Daniel Manous
- Mountain recipes
- Preserving vegetables
- Preserving fruit
- Churning your own butter
- Slaughtering hogs
- Curing and smoking hog
- Recipes for hog
- Weather signs
- Planting by the signs
- The buzzard and the dog
- Home remedies
- Hunting
- Dressing and cooking wild animal foods
- Hunting tales
- Snake lore
- Moonshining as a fine art
- Faith healing
- Hillard Green.
- OCLC:
- 266733
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