Margaret Norton, who is prominently featured in the first Foxfire book, churns butter as she is being interviewed by a student in 1967. The original Foxfire book series consists of 12 volumes, but ...

Recently, in an antique store in rural Virginia, I came across the Foxfire books, a high-school class project that turned into an epic publishing and oral history enterprise. Now celebrating its 45 th ...

It’s a fall afternoon, and Jessica Phillips is sitting in a log cabin and discussing Foxfire, the cultural appreciation nonprofit that for 50 years has transcribed and recorded the oral histories of ...

In 1966, students in Rabun Gap put together a magazine documenting their own lives and traditions in the mountains of northeast Georgia—thereby birthing a humble but remarkably durable publishing ...

"THE FOXFIRE BOOK OF APPALACHIAN WOMEN," edited By Kami Ahrens (The University of North Carolina Press, 268 pages, $25). The Foxfire series, as editor Kami Ahrens explains in the introduction to "The ...

The 1,500-mile Appalachian Mountain range stretches so far that those on the northern and southern sides can't agree on what to call it: Appa-LAY-chia or Appa-LATCH-ia. The outside perspective on the ...

Foxfire started as a class project at a Georgia high school in the '60s, but soon became a magazine, then a book, and even a way of teaching about... The 1,500-mile Appalachian Mountain range ...