Foxfire 6

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In the late 1960s, Eliot Wigginton and his students created the magazine Foxfire in an effort to record and preserve the traditional folk culture of the Southern Appalachians. This is the original book compilation of Foxfire material which introduces Aunt Arie and her contemporaries and includes log cabin building, hog dressing, snake lore, mountain crafts and food, and "other affairs of plain living."This second Foxfire volume includes topics such as ghost stories, spinning and weaving, wagon making, midwifing, corn shuckin', and more.Volume 3 of this series covers animal care, banjos and dulcimers, wild plant foods, butter churns, ginseng and more.Fiddle making, spring houses, horse trading, s! assafras tea, berry buckets, gardening, and other affairs of plain living are the topics covered in this volume.Grace Wilkins has been hiding in the secluded mountains of Tennessee where she feels safe from her ex-lover and his vow to kill her. She's resigned to living a solitary life, for no man could ever overlook her tarnished past. Then she meets the sexy new veterinarian, Tyler Sandford, and she begins to hope for a normal life. Tyler Sandford is more than a licensed veterinarianâ€"he's also a tenacious undercover DEA agent on the trail of a killer. He'll do anything to get his man, for the murderer he seeks took the life of Tyler's wife and unborn child. Tyler receives a break when he discovers the hiding place of the killer's ex-lover, Grace Wilkins. But when he finally meets the flesh and blood woman, he's in danger of losing his objectivity and his heart. A cruel trick of fate leads a killer to Grace's safe haven. Now she must choose between running away and ! losing love or staying and risking her life. Tyler is caught b! etween c onfessing his true agenda and maintaining his cover. Either way he risks losing the woman he loves.The fifth Foxfire volume includes rain-making, blacksmithing, bear hunting, flintlock rifles, and more.GIRL GANG LEADER ANGELINA JOLIE INSPIRES HER TEENAGE POSSE TO TAKE REVENGE ON EVER MAN WHO'S EVER ABUSED THEM. BASED ON THE NOVEL BY JOYCE CAROL OATES. SPECIAL FEATURES: SUBTITLES INENGLISH AND SPANISH, THEATRICAL TRAILERS, TALENT FILES, SCENE SELECTIONS, INTERACTIVE MENUS AND MUCH MORE.Angelina Jolie's strong-willed performance in Foxfire as Legs, the charismatic outsider based on the rebellious character from Joyce Carol Oates's novel, is a very good reason to see this 1996 drama. The film updates the story from the 1950s to the '90s, but for a while the air of teenage angst and confrontation is closer to the legacy of James Dean than gun-toting/body-piercing disaffection. Bold and larger-than-life, Legs quickly gathers a group of adolescent girls around he! r, each of whom has been sexually abused and is dealing in her own way with the emotional consequences. As expected, the girls plot out their revenge, but even more interesting is the intensity of their bond and rituals, the way they hang out in an abandoned house, their expressions of devotion. So tight and self-protective does this clique become that onlookers--fellow students, parents--become resentful. The final act loses faith somewhat with the mystique of this story, as a few hoary ideas (kidnapping, firearms) breach the film's originality. But what's good is good indeed, and Jolie's performance remains a harbinger of great things to come. --Tom KeoghWith this newest volume in the Foxfire series comes a wealth of the kind of folk wisdom and values of simple living that have made these volumes beloved bestsellers for the last three decades, with more than two million copies in print.

In 1966, in the Appalachian Mountains of Northeast Georgia, Eliot Wiggin! ton and his students founded a quarterly magazine that they na! med F oxfire, after a phosphorescent lichen. In 1972, several articles from the magazine were published in book form, and the acclaimed Foxfire series was born. Almost thirty years later, in this age of technology and cyber-living, the books teach a philosophy of simplicity in living that is truly enduring in its appeal. This new volume--Foxfire 11--celebrates the rituals and recipes of the Appalachian homeplace, including a one-hundred page section on herbal remedies, and segments about planting and growing a garden, preserving and pickling, smoking and salting, honey making, beekeeping, and fishing, as well as hundreds of the kind of spritied firsthand narrative accounts from Appalachian community members that exemplify the Foxfire style. Much more than "how-to" books, the Foxfire series is a publishing phenomenon and a way of life, teaching creative self-sufficiency, the art of natural remedies, home crafts, and other country folkways, fascinating to everyone interes! ted in rediscovering the virtues of simple life.Volume 6 of the Foxfire series  covers shoemaking, 100 toys and games, gourd  banjos and song bows, wooden locks, a water-powered  sawmill, and other fascinating topics.