I am back in Appalachiafor Christmas, and while digging around in some of my old childhood stuff I came across the amazing book,"The Foxfire Book" that my Dad gave me for my10th birthday.I remember being fascinated by it then,but,I think I was a tad too young to trulyget it....Now I do. Aunt Ari(The author's not mine.) Bill Lamb with a hickoryox yokemade by Mac Hopper,
the best yoke maker in the county. Beulah Perry shows the authorhow to make a basket. Lon Reid with one of thetall-backed chairs he makes. Detail from a 150 year old"Friendship Quilt".(This is one of the 55 makers names.) Pearl Martin"Makin' soap" with store bought Red Devil Lye" "Dan Manous in front of his old abandoned bread wagon." Margaret Norton churnin'her own butter. "Hobe, John, Mrs. Hopper and Lum Williamswork over the hog until it is scraped clean." Hobe prepares to gut the hog. A hard and lonely job.Unless you speak mulethat is....Plow resting. "They was two fellas a'goin' along one time in th' woods an' saw two snakes a'tangled up fightin'..."Harley Carpenter Kenny Runion holding "rattlesnack" weed.Cures a "rattlesnack" bite he says. Lon Reid tellin'snake tales.... Hillard Green,snake whisperer and killer.That's a big rattler'!!! "Harley Carpenterduring one of his
snake hunting tales."Buck Carver with his one-gallon still. Still architecture and construction."Moonshining as a Fine Art" My Dad holding my Grandfather's"cough syurp". Yum! Clyde's whiskey concoction is now 55 years old... Instructions for a homemade "pain killer" Harley Carpenter with his "crow call". Ray Conner with some of his kills. Har Reid with one of his ginseng plants. Harley Carpenter holds a yellowroot pant. The author Eliot Wiggingtonwith Aunt Arie.