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ISBN: 0385022670

ISBN13: 9780385022675

Foxfire 2

Name: Customs of Appalachia
Item: Foxfire 2
Rating: 5
Author: Thriftbooks.com User

(Part of the The Foxfire Series (#2) Series and Foxfire (#2) Series)

By Eliot Wigginton

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Book Overview

First published in 1972, The Foxfire Book was a surprise bestseller that brought Appalachia's philosophy of simple living to hundreds of thousands of readers. Whether you wanted to hunt game, bake the old-fashioned way, or learn the art of successful moonshining, The Foxfire Museum and Heritage Center had a contact who could teach you how with clear, step-by-step instructions. This second Foxfire volume includes topics such as ghost stories, spinning and weaving, wagon making, midwifing, corn shuckin', and more.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0385022670

ISBN13:9780385022675

Release Date:June 1973

Publisher:Anchor Books

Length:416 Pages

Weight:1.51 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.0" x 9.2"

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Rated 5 stars
Customs of Appalachia

By Thriftbooks.com User, June 28, 2008

Ghost Stories, Spring Plant Foods, Spinning and Weaving, Midwifing, Burial Customs, Corn Shuckin's, and Wagon Making are an integral part of Southern mountain culture. This volume of the Foxfire series should be on any author's shelf who writes or plans to write a best selling historical (COLD MOUNTAIN), a mystery (THE DEVILS HEARTH), or a literary novel (PRODIGAL SUMMER), because these traditions add spice and authenticity...

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BOOK(S) WITH A WONDERFUL PURPOSE.

By Thriftbooks.com User, April 12, 2007

THis work, Volume II, is like the others. A wonderful history of how it was. In this day and age of having most needs meet and something for everyone on the Wal-mart shelf, we tend to forget just what it was like in our not too distant past. These books, the Foxfire books, brings to light skills, attitudes and a way of life that is all but forgotten. This is a good thing. When a people lose their history, they lose part...

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Survival Guide for Hardy Individuals

By Thriftbooks.com User, March 28, 2007

Have enjoyed all the Foxfire Books for years. They are a wonderful peek into the lives of hardy people who survived without a single benefit from the U.S.Government.........and were proud of it.

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Rated 5 stars
Foxfire books are excellent

By Thriftbooks.com User, July 28, 2003

Years ago we owned all the Foxfire books, and then we donated them to the library so others could glean the wisdom they had, and we have slowly begun to but copies for our home library and this is one that I wanted first. Simply because it had information on burial customs and I make plain pine burial boxes. And because it has excellent information on wild plants that are edible in the spring and we love to forage for wild...

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Rated 5 stars
I love the series of these books

By Thriftbooks.com User, September 13, 1999

The series of Foxfire books takes you back in time when life was hard physically but simplier mentally. While reading these books I fell like I am in a time capsule being transported back in time ninety or so years. I enjoy past history and anything to do with mountain country around the Smokies. These peope lived off the land and took the time to enjoy life and their families. These books provide tips for things that...

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