Foxfire Series Books

[Boyd]

I want to thank whoever it was in the 6 hours $100 dollar thread for recommending the Foxfire series. I had a Barnes And Noble gift card and was itching to use it so I googled the series. Not more than 20 minutes later me and the daughter were on our way to go get it. I've spent almost all day today and yesterday reading it cover to cover. I'm almost ready to get the 2nd book.

 

[mom'sfolly]

Aren't they wonderful? Everything is in them!!!!!

 

[HennyPennies2007]

I'm so mad...I had these books in High school and got rid of them when I got married....who knew? DUH....

 

[Ridgerunner]

Our public library has them or can get them through interlibrary exchange. All you gotta do is ask.

I felt like I knew some of those people when I was growing up.

 

[The Chicken Lady]

I have Books 1-6. I got them from a library book sale.

 

[Boyd]

I'm going on Amazon and ordering book 2

I figure one a week otherwise I'll go totally out of control and order a whole bunch of them.

 

[redhen]

I'm interested in these books now..
Are they in story form? or just all about survival stuff?

 

[CedarRidgeChicks]

Wonderful books!! I have several..just love to read them..if you like these, you would probably like any of the "Museum of Appalachia" books by John Rice Irwin. They are more entertaining that guides but there is a wealth of info in them too..We have Quilts and the People (Women ?) Who made them, one on gunsmithing and one on mountain instruments.

 

[Boyd]

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They are basically a collection of articles from the old foxfire magazine condensed into book form. They also take audio take and write it out word for word (so the spelling is pretty funny sometimes) but the instructions and pictures are great. Here's the Chapters... and it's pretty good

This is the way I was raised up
Aunt Arie (a recurring person throughout the first book I'm reading)
Wood
Tools and Skills
Building a Log Cabin
Chimney Building
White Oak Splits
Making Hamper and Baskets out of Splits
Old Chair Making
Rope Straw and Feathers to sleep on
A quilt is something human
soap making
cooking on a fireplace dutch oven and woodstove
daniel manous
mountain recipies
preserving veggies and fruit
churning butter
slaughtering hogs
curing and smoking hog
recipies for hog
weather signs
Planting by the sign
The buzzard and the dog
Home remedies
Hunting (ALL KINDS)
Dressing and Cooking Wild animals
hunting tall tales
moonshining
faith healing
hillard green.


Phew. Thats the first book and about 380 pages

 

[wombat]

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They're very much a "story form" sort of a book.

The books started out as a series of magazine articles. A lot of the information is in a narative format, colloquial English and all, with a lot of background info. Interesting reading. I've got several ... I really should get around to getting more of them!