Unique heritage book featuring handcrafted Appalachian traditions like animal care, hide tanning, wild plant foods, and folk crafts, part of Books and Heritage collections.
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The Foxfire Books - Volume 3

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Explore Appalachian heritage with crafts, stories, and traditional skills in Volume 3.

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Description

This book celebrates the lively and homespun heritage of Appalachia, and includes sections on hide tanning, building a lumber kiln, and making apple butter and cornshuck mops—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 animal care, banjos and dulcimers, hide tanning, summer and fall wild plant foods, butter churns, and ginseg.
  • Edited by Eliot Wigginton and his students
  • 6x9, 511 pgs.
  • Includes a cumulative index
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