Travels with Foxfire: Stories of People, Passions, and Practices from Southern Appalachia

Travels with Foxfire: Stories of People, Passions, and Practices from Southern Appalachia

Travels with Foxfire: Stories of People, Passions, and Practices from Southern Appalachia

Travels with Foxfire: Stories of People, Passions, and Practices from Southern Appalachia

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Overview

Since 1972, the Foxfire books have preserved and celebrated the culture of Southern Appalachia for hundreds of thousands of readers. In Travels with Foxfire, native son Phil Hudgins and Foxfire student Jessica Phillips travel from Georgia to the Carolinas, Tennessee to Kentucky, collecting the stories of the men and women who call the region home.  
 
Across more than thirty essays, we discover the secret origins of stock car racing, the story behind the formation of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the vanishing art of gathering wild ginseng, and the recipes of an award-winning cookbook writer. We meet bootleggers and bear hunters, game wardens and medicine women, water dowsers, sculptors, folk singers, novelists, record collectors, and home cooks—even the world’s foremost “priviologist”—all with tales to tell.
 
A rich compendium of the collected wisdom of artists, craftsmen, musicians, and moonshiners, Travels with Foxfire is a joyful tribute to the history, the geography, and the traditions that define Appalachian living.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780525436294
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 08/14/2018
Series: Foxfire Series
Pages: 336
Sales rank: 296,698
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Founded in 1966, FOXFIRE is a nonprofit education organization. Foxfire's learner-centered, community-based approach is advocated through The Foxfire Museum and Heritage Center and grounded in the Southern Appalachian culture that promotes a sense of place and appreciation of local people and culture as essential educational tools.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction xiii

The Way It Was 3

The Family Farm 5

The story of Mama & Papa Hudgins

Moonshining Days 15

Stories from James Speed's life making illegal liquor

How Stock Car Racing Started 23

Dawson County folks talk about the precursor to NASCAR

Drive-in Movie Theaters 32

An American icon, reborn

Water Dowsers 39

The ancient art of finding underground water

Outhouses 45

An interview with "priviologist" Mary Frazier Long

Appalachia on Television 50

The story of Heartland

Georgia: First in Flight! 57

The story of Micajah Clark Dyer

Arts And Herbs 63

Doctoring with Herbs 65

The story of Eve Miranda, Medicine Woman

Wild Ginseng 75

Interviews with four men who still hunt it the right way

How to Turn Junk into Art 81

An interview with Jane Taylor

Artist, Flint Knapper, Fiddle and Banjo Player, and Naturalist 92

An interview with Joseph "Doc" Johnson

Food Fit To Eat 101

Dishin' Up Love 103

Interview with Lazell Vinson

Joseph Dabney 108

Winning the James Beard Cookbook of the Year Award

Peach Grower Dori Sanders of South Carolina 123

Recipes from her cookbook

A Sense Of Community 135

On Artistry, Ancestry, and African Americans 137

An interview with Ann Miller Woodford

Keeping the Land and the History 148

Stories from Wayne County, Kentucky

Forming the Great Smoky Mountains National Park 158

The story of Glenn Cardwell of Pittman Center, Tennessee

The Lone Commissioner of Lumpkin County 166

The life of B. Jones

The Great Outdoors 175

Catching Violators of Game and Fish Laws 177

Stories from Calvin Stewart

Turkey Hunting 186

The turkey-hunting tales of three Georgians

Legendary Bear Hunters from the Old School 195

Tales of bear hunting in Rabun County

Where Music Dwells 211

Music in Southern Appalachia 213

Bluegrass, country, and shape note singing

Grounded in Folk Tradition 226

The story of Hedy West

Lillie Mulkey West 235

Inspiring a new generation of folk singers

John Jarrard and Bruce Burch 238

Writers of country music

Southern Gospel Singing 247

Still afavorite for many

Lighter Moments from Gospel Groups 254

The Lord's work is serious business, most of the time

Stories And Their Tellers 261

Inventing a Time Machine and Other Adventures 263

Emory Jones, the great storyteller

Passing Down Memories 273

The story of author Dori Sanders

Dr. C. B. Skelton of Winder, Georgia 278

Practicing medicine and sharing humorous stories

In Pursuit Of "Hobbiness" 289

Eighteen Thousand Long-Play Albums 291

Jerry Kendall and his record collection

Tractors and Trucks 296

Carl "Feel Bad" Davis

Snaking Logs Through the Kentucky Woods 301

Mollis Thrasher and his mules

Family History 308

Jerry Taylor on tracing other peoples genealogies

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