The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Women: Stories of Landscape and Community in the Mountain South Ahrens Kami
The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Women: Stories of Landscape and Community in the Mountain South Ahrens Kami In 1966 in Rabun County, Georgia, a group of high school English students created…
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The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Women: Stories of Landscape and Community in the Mountain South Ahrens Kami
In 1966 in Rabun County, Georgia, a group of high school English students created theFoxfire magazine, a literary journal that celebrated Appalachian stories, peoples, and culture. These oral histories quickly became the focal point of the magazine and, eventually, the material that generated the multivolume Foxfire book series.Now, pulled from the vast Foxfire archive comes the first volume in the series focused specifically on the lives of Appalachian women. The publication was filled with poetry and prose from local students and authors and featured interviews with community members.
Told sometimes with humor, sometimes with sadness, but always with a gripping rawness and honesty, the stories recount women's These remarkable narratives illuminate a diverse regional culture held together by the threads that are woven between women and place, and through generations.
In The Shadow of the Mountain