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Foxfire Magazine/Books

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Did any of you old timers ever read this magazine? Or the books? My father just gifted me with the entire book series for Christmas. This looks amazing, basically how-to/folklore from Appalachia. How to gut a hog, mash whiskey, snake lore, gardening, etc... So much "old" information, things that most these days don't even know the first thing about! Man I would have loved this stuff as a kid (I love it as an adult too).
Too bad my 10 month old is too little to appreciate it, I'm sure when he's a curious little boy he'll want to read them with his daddy.
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The books cover a wide range of topics, many to do with crafts, tools, music and other aspects of traditional life skills and culture in Appalachia. These include making apple butter, banjos, basket weaving, beekeeping, butter churning, corn shucking, dulcimers, faith healing, Appalachian folk magic, fiddle making, haints, American ginseng cultivation, long rifle and flintlock making, hide tanning, hog dressing, hunting tales, log cabin building, moonshining, midwives, old-time burial customs, planting "by the signs", preserving foods, sassafras tea, snake handling and lore, soap making, spinning, square dancing, wagon making, weaving, wild food gathering, witches, and wood carving.
If you are a DIYer or have an outdoorsy nephew or son this seems pretty cool

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I got a set handed down from my dad. They are great and very interesting.

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I got the books for mom; I read them as a child through teen years; I inherited them later.
Local library has a copy too.
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One source for Foxfire books is http://www.backwoodshome.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;.
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Haven't read them, but I am buying the set. We've been accumulating books of "bypassed wisdom" as part of our prepping plan. And my wife has begun sharing such books back and forth with friends who are like minded.
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