The Foxfire Book Set Collection Series Volumes 1-12 Eliot Wigginton COMPLETE

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TheFoxfire Book Series Complete, all 12 volumes Here's your chance to get the most complete collection of published information on the heritage of the southern Appalachian mountains and save a few dollars doing it. Purchase the entire 12-volume series of Foxfire books together. Much more than "how-to" books, the Foxfire series is a publishing phenomenon and a way of life, teaching creative self-sufficiency, the art of natural remedies, home crafts, and other country folkways, fascinating to everyone interested in rediscovering the virtues of simple life. In the late 1960s, Eliot Wigginton and his students created the magazine Foxfire in an effort to record and preserve the traditional folk culture of the Southern Appalachians. This is the original book compilation of Foxfire material which introduces Aunt Arie and her contemporaries. The Foxfire Book: includes log cabin building, hog dressing, snake lore, mountain crafts and food, and "other affairs of plain living." Volume 2 includes topics such as ghost stories, spinning and weaving, wagon making, midwifing, corn shuckin', and more. Volume 3 of this series covers animal care, banjos and dulcimers, wild plant foods, butter churns, ginseng and more. Volume 4 includes Fiddle making, spring houses, horse trading, sassafras tea, berry buckets, gardening, and other affairs of plain living are the topics covered in this volume. Volume 5 includes rain-making, blacksmithing, bear hunting, flintlock rifles, and more. Volume 6 covers shoemaking, 100 toys and games, gourd banjos and song bows, wooden locks, a water-powered sawmill, and other fascinating topics. Volume 7 presents traditions of mountain religious heritage, covering ministers, revivals, baptisms, gospel-singing, faith healing, camp meetings, snake handling, and more. Volume 8 includes Southern folk pottery from pug mills, ash glazes, and groundhog kilns to face jugs, churns and roosters; mule swapping, chicken fighting, and more are included in this eighth volume. Volume 9 highlights the twentieth year of the Foxfire high school program with a new volume as fascinating as its predecessors. Included are general stores, the Jud Nelson wagon, a praying rock, a Catawban Indian potter, haint tales, quilting, home cures, and the log cabin revisited. Volume 10 Chock full of the wit and wisdom that has become the Foxfire trademark, this entirely new volume in the acclaimed, 6-million-copy best-selling Foxfire series is on oral history of Appalachian lives and traditions, homespun crafts, and folk arts. Volume 11--celebrates the rituals and recipes of the Appalachian homeplace, including a one-hundred page section on herbal remedies, and segments about planting and growing a garden, preserving and pickling, smoking and salting, honey making, beekeeping, and fishing, as well as hundreds of the kind of spritied firsthand narrative accounts from Appalachian community members that exemplify the Foxfire style. Volume 12 Here are lessons on how to make rose beads and wooden coffins, and on how to find turtles in your local pond. Books are in great condition, with only light wear. No prior ownership marks. Remainder marks on bottom. International Buyers – Please Note: Import duties, taxes and charges are not included in the item price or shipping charges. These charges are the buyer's responsibility.Please check with your country's customs office to determine what these additional costs will be prior to bidding/buying.These charges are normally collected by the delivering freight (shipping) company or when you pick the item up – do not confuse them for additional shipping charges.We do not mark merchandise values below value or mark items as "gifts" - US and International government regulations prohibit such behavior. I am happy to answer questions. Please send your email address if you want further photographs of this item. NO RESE... read more

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