Paperback book cover for a heritage and lifestyle collection featuring Appalachian crafts, toys, and traditional skills with a vintage photo of people working outdoors.
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The Foxfire Books - Volume 6

SKU: FF6

$19.99
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Explore Appalachian heritage with crafts, toys, and stories in Foxfire Volume 6.

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Description

The sixth volume celebrates the playful and innovative heritage of Appalachia, including sections on making toys—from bow and arrows to merry-go-arounds, from flying jennys to puzzles, cornstalk fiddles, and cucumber dolls—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 shoemaking, 100 toys and games, gourd banjos and song bows, wooden locks, and a water-powered sawmill.
  • Edited by Eliot Wigginton and his students
  • 6x9, 510 pgs.
  • Includes a cumulative index
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