The Foxfire Book Vol 1,2,3 [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, corm shuckin'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

Wigginton, Eliot , 1942 (Editor, Writer of introduction) ; Aunt Arie, Aunt Nora Garland, Beulah Perry, Woodrow Shope, Kenny Runion, Maude Shope, Anna Howard

Published by Anchor Books/Doubleday, New York, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1972

About this Item

384, 410, 511 pages : illustrations, plans, portraits ; 24 cm OCLC 266733 41746909 1194879 ISBN 9780385073509, 9780385073530, 038507350X, 0385073534 9780385022545, 9780606362245, 0385022549, 060636224X 9780385022651, 9780385022729, 0385022654, 0385022727 ; Interviews and essays describe the way of life and crafts of pioneer America still surviving in the Appalachian region ; "Edited by Eliot Wigginton and his students"--Cover "Portions of this collection first appeared in Foxfire magazine." ; Contents: Vol.1: "this is the way I was raised up" -- 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 ; Vol.2: Maude Shope -- Sourwood honey -- Beekeeping -- Spring wild plant foods -- Happy Dowdle -- Making an ox yoke -- Wagon wheels and wagons -- Making a tub wheel -- Making a foot-powered lathe -- From raising sheep to weaving cloth -- How to wash clothes in an iron pot -- Anna Howard -- Midwives and granny women -- Old-time burials -- Boogers, witches, and haints --Corn shuckin's, house raisin's, quiltin's, pea thrashin's, singin's, log rollin's, candy pullin's, and . -- Kenny Runion ; Vol.3: Simmie Free -- Hide tanning -- Cattle raising -- - Animal care -- Banjos and dulcimers -- Purple martin gourds -- Dipper gourds -- Florence and Lawton Brooks -- Ginseng -- Summer and fall wild plant foods -- Woodrow Shope builds a smokehouse -- Building a lumber kiln -- Butter churns -- Beulah Perry -- Apple butter -- Sorghum -- Brooms and brushes -- Cornshuck mops, dolls and hats -- Aunt Nora Garland ; FINE/FINE/FINE.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Foxfire Book Vol 1,2,3 [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, corm shuckin'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, ...
• Publisher: Anchor Books/Doubleday, New York, 1972, 1973, 1975
• Publication Date: 1972
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Book Type: Book