Foxfire Series Books

[19Dawn76]

I just got back from the library and got books 1-4. They have all but book 5 and they are going to get that from another library in the state. I am reading the part where aunt artie is making souse. We call it head cheese. My neighbors wanted the hog head the last time we butchered and that is what they made out of it. i was never brave enough to try it. I am very excited to read the rest of the book and I hope I don t stay up all night!!!

 

[TerriLaChicks]

Gee, it's been forever since I even thought about the Foxfire books---we have a bunch of them here, from 20+ years ago--will have to go take them out of the bookcase upstairs & re-read them again!

 

[Mac in Wisco]

I read a few of those some 25 years ago, I was always interested in the articles about moonshining. If I recall correctly the whole concept was started by a teacher who tasked his students to start recording the knowledge of their Appalachian elders. It was a sociology project that turned into a popular how-to series as the students started recording how the old timers lived off the land.

 

[wasatusay]

Not to burst any bubbles, I have some of the original Foxfire books from when they came out. But I am not one to forget bad things that are not acceptable to me in any way. This is from http://www.huffenglish.com/?p=135
Since I am one of those old enough to remember when this became the end of Foxfire and one that does not forget or forgive such things.
"I remember years ago, Eliot Wigginton, who founded the Foxfire method of teaching in Rabun Gap, came to speak at our Foundations of Education class. He was well-known at the time — one of those celebrity teachers like Jaime Escalante, Harry Wong, or Ron Clark. He took a group of disadvantaged kids in the Appalachians and worked miracles with them. He was a teacher I admired. Then it was discovered that he was a child molestor. He spent one year in jail for this crime and was sentenced to nineteen years probation. He also had to resign from teaching. I can’t tell you how upset I was when I learned the allegations against Wigginton were true. A cursory Google search for Eliot Wigginton reveals you have to dig a bit to find references to his crime. How does one reconcile the good he did as a teacher with the evil he did? To my way of thinking, it really can’t be done. I think victimizing a child in this way is one of the most evil things a person can do, and in my view, it overshadows… perhaps even obliterates the good he did."

 

[Mac in Wisco]

That doesn't diminish the work done by the students or the value of the series. It's a good read, regardless.

 

[wasatusay]

I agree,I am not condemning the books. I did not and will not get rid of my books, the information is great. I just want to make sure that even now, no praise should be lavished to Eliot Wigginton . His crimes should not be forgotten, is all I want to make sure of.

 

[19Dawn76]

Thanks guys! Loving the books.

 

[Camelot Farms]

LOL.... I went and did the same Boyd! I got used copies of some of them on Amazon this morning.

I am also interested in the FireFox magazines. I am bidding on some on EBAY... luvbnamom23... so dont go bid against me please

 

[Boyd]

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no worries there

 

[seismic wonder2]

DANG!
I couldn't find any on EBAY.

I ordered than through the library excange. Too bad I have to give them back.......