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Foxfire 2 : ghost stories, spring wild plant foods, spinning and weaving, midwifing, burial customs, corn shuckin's, wagon making and more affairs of plain living / edited with an introduction by Eliot Wigginton.

Wigginton, Eliot. (Author).

Summary:

Interviews and essays describe the way of life and crafts of pioneer America still surviving in the Appalachian region.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0385022670
  • ISBN: 9780385022675
  • Physical Description: 384 unnumbered pages : illustrations, photographs
  • Publisher: Garden City, NY : Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1970.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
Maude Shope -- Sourwood honey -- Beekeeping -- Spring wild plant foods -- Happy Dowdle -- Making an ox yoke -- Wagon wheels and wagons -- Making a tub wheel -- Making a foot-powered lathe -- From raising sheep to weaving cloth -- How to wash clothes in an iron pot -- Anna Howard -- Midwives and granny women -- Old-time burials -- Boogers, witches, and haints -- Corn shuckin's, house raisin's, quiltin's, pea thrashin's, singin's, log rollin's, candy pullin's, and ... -- Kenny Runion.
Subject:
Country life > Georgia > Rabun Gap.
Handicraft > Georgia > Rabun Gap.

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  • 64 of 77 copies available at NC Cardinal.
  • 1 of 3 copies available at McDowell County Public Library. (Show)

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