The Foxfire Book Series

“a nine-part series of wisdom from the appalachians, featuring lessons in hog dressing, log cabin building, basket weaving, gardening, shoemaking, and more affairs of plain living. needed now more than ever.”

“In our tech-obsessed and modern society it kind of blows my mind that not too many generations ago people actually knew how to do things like make a chair or build an entire log cabin without looking it up on YouTube or finding a specialist. This knowledge was passed down, you learned by doing, and you used the materials you had around you. I’m so glad a high school class in Appalachia started interviewing their elders in the 60s and turned it into a magazine (which then became a book series). Oral history is so important, and so is traditional knowledge.”