The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Cookery edited by T. J. Smith

Although first published in 1984, the previous edition of this book was released in October of 1992. It was co-edited by Eliot Wigginton and Linda Garland Page. One month earlier, Linda Garland Page’s husband, Rabun County, Georgia, Sheriff Don Page, charged Eliot Wigginton with child molestation, and Wigginton pleaded guilty to one count of non-aggravated child molestation of a ten-year-old boy. Wigginton was given a one-year jail sentence and required to leave the Foxfire Project and the teaching profession. He moved to Jacksonville, Florida and set up a home landscaping business. Wigginton was born in 1942 in West Virginia. His mother died of pneumonia eleven days later. His father was a successful landscape architect. The family had a summer home in Rabun County, Georgia, which Eliot loved, and after earning both Bachelors and Master’s degrees from Cornell University and a second Masters from Johns Hopkins, he took a job as an English teacher at the Rabun-Gap Nacoochee School in Ra