Travels with Foxfire: Stories of People, Passions, and Practices from Southern Appalachia by Phil Hudgins and Jessica Phillips

This book represents a new departure for Foxfire, after 12 numbered Foxfire Books and 8 supplementary volumes still in print. There is still a Foxfire class at Rabun County High School, and students there still put out two issues of the Foxfire magazine every year, but this is the first Foxfire book that hasn’t been primarily a product of student interviews and writing. Instead, it was sponsored by the Foxfire Fund Board and written by a former Foxfire student and a former publisher/editor of the local Rabun County newspaper. Like the other Foxfire books, it consists of interviews of Appalachian people who enjoy practicing traditional ways, including in this case, ginseng gathering, dowsing for water, and snaking logs through the woods with mules.  Cooking, hunting, music, and story-telling are also covered here. Foxfire was started by Eliot Wigginton, a West Virginia native. After obtaining degrees from Cornell and Johns Hopkins, Wiggington took a job in 1966 teaching English at the R