The Foxfire Book Set: The Foxfire Book, Foxfire 2, Foxfire 3 (1975)

The Foxfire Book Set of three Books

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

Foxfire 2:

ghost stories, spring wild plant foods, spinning and weaving, midwifing, burial customs, corn shucking's, wagon making and more affairs of plain living

Foxfire 3:

animal care, banjos and dulcimers, hide tanning, summer and fall wild plant foods, butter churns, ginseng, and still more affairs of plain living

By Eliot Wigginton and the Foxfire Fund Inc.

Published by Anchor Books

Copyright 1975

Genre: Nonfiction, Survival Guides

Physical Description: Set of three paperback books. None of the spines are broken. This edition of the best selling series with a new introduction by Eliot Wigginton. The box holding these three books is badly worn and only has the outside paper on one of the sides. 

Summary: A 3 volume set of the Anchor paperbacks of Foxfire series. This series is based off of Old Appalachian ways of living, and is one of the best series for Bushcraft and living off the Earth out there. In the late 1960s, Eliot Wigginton and his students created the magazine Foxfire in an effort to record and preserve the traditional folk culture of the Southern Appalachians. This is the original book compilation of Foxfire material which introduces Aunt Arie and her contemporaries. The Foxfire series of of books were oral histories transcribed by high school students who interviewed older people living in the Appalachian area of north Georgia and southern North Carolina in the 1970s and 1980s. They captured a cross section of traditional 20th century American history at the very moment it was being snuffed out by the overwhelming force of postmodern urbanism. All spine edges are smooth, bindings are tight, minimal cover blemish or wear, no writing or highlighting - a wonderful set of these classic books. A, true, get back to the land philosophy within.... Lessons passed down from generation to generation. A simpler time indeed. Chapters include everything from building log cabins to making moonshine to mountain crafts to faith healing, planting by the signs and more. Ghost stories, spinning, weaving, midwifery, corn sticking, wagon making are just a few things you will learn. Wild plant foods, ginseng, banjos and dulcimers, sourwood honey, beekeeping, making an ox yoke, making a tug wheel, making a foot powered lathe, from Raising sheep to weaving cloth, how to wash clothing and an iron pot, Granny women, old-time burials, boogers, witches and haints, corn shucking, house raisin, quilting, pea thrashing, singing, logrolling, hog dressing, snake handling & lore, shoemaking, crafting toys and games, carving gourd banjos, song bows and wooden locks, rain-making, blacksmithing, bear hunting, flintlock rifles, Gospel singing, revivals, baptisms, Berry Buckets, fiddle making, spring houses, horse trading, sassafras tea, berry buckets, Southern folk pottery from pug mills, ash glazes, and groundhog kilns to face jugs, churns and roosters, mule swapping, cock fighting. Everything you’d need to survive in the wild. 

Subject: Educational, Education, Culture, America, Survival Skills, Survive, How To, Wild, Instruction Manuals, Surviving Rural Life, Reference, Resource