Foxfire magazine was started in 1966 at Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School (Georgia) by Eliot Wigginton, a young teacher looking to engage his English students. What started as a school project has blossomed into a biannual magazine, book series, museum and teaching system. Still student run, Foxfire contains articles about Appalachian culture using elders, family members and local experts as resources. The pictured compilation, published in 1973, is an amazing resource with subjects ranging from burial customs to beekeeping. This project connects generations and preserves information about American culture for the future.
"This book is dedicated to high school kids like Carlton, Karen, David, Barbara, Stan and thousands like them across this nation -- all searching, all groping, all testing for the touchstone, the piece of serenity, the chunk of sense and place and purpose and humanity they can carry with them into a very confusing time."
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