Foxfire 40th Anniversary Book
Sep 17, 2006
Authors: Angie Cheek, Lacy Hunter Nix and the Foxfire Students
Publisher: Anchor Books
Publication Date: September 2006
I received this very interesting book the other day. It's a compilation of stories, folklore, recipes, natural remedies and interviews told to Foxfire Magazine by old-timers in the rural North Georgia mountain communities of the Appalachians.
The magazine program was founded in 1966 and has been going strong ever since. The main office is located in Mountain City, Georgia.
I read many of the stories and I was awed by the strength, courage and determination of these old-timers. They told stories about lack of food, furnishings, doctors, toys, and many other things we take for granted or consider necessities. Not in one single story or interview did these people feel sorry for themselves or complain about what they lacked.
With humor and integrity they describe how they circumvented these obstacles and continued on. These are/were strong people.
The book is filled with wonderful pictures, many of them being the interviewees in the book. It's also filled with old-timey recipes for cookin' and doctorin'. Some of the doctorin' recipes made my hair stand on end (Tie the left foot of a mole around the baby's neck to make him stop teething.) but they are interesting to read regardless.
It's a nice fat book, ready to fill many an hour with enjoyable reading.
I am quite happy to be able to add this work of Southern History to my bookshelf.
