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The Foxfire Books - Volume 2

SKU: FF2

$19.99
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Explores Appalachian customs with ghost stories, crafts, and folklore.

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Description

Celebrates the rites and customs of Appalachia, and includes sections on old-time burials, midwives, granny women, witches, and haints—as well as a variety of the kind of spirited firsthand narrative accounts from Appalachian community members that exemplify the Foxfire style.

Product Highlights
  • Covers ghost stories, spring wild plant foods, spinning and weaving, midwifing, burial customs, corn shuckin's, and wagon making.
  • Edited by Eliot Wigginton and his students
  • 6x9, 410 pgs.
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