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An Appalachian Easter: Recipes for a Spring Gathering

April 13, 2022

Celebrate spring in the mountains with this Appalachian-inspired Easter menu! Taken from the pages of The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Cookery, these recipes for fried ham, red-eye gravy, and...

Mountain-Style Plumbing: Making Log Water Pipes

April 8, 2022

Adapted from Foxfire Magazine, Spring 1976 Original article by Bob O’Dwyer. Interviews, photos, and diagrams by Bob O’Dwyer, Jeff Fears, and John Matthies. When it comes to modern homes, few of us...

It Still Lives, Season 4 Episode 3: Quilting & Community

April 5, 2022

April’s podcast episode is continuing the conversation on craft and community. Quilter Zak Foster stopped by the Foxfire Museum to take a look at our textile collection and talk about his...

It Still Lives, Season 4 Episode 2, Part 2: Weaving in the Mountains

March 22, 2022

We are continuing are exploration of weaving in the southern mountains with this look back at what the craft looked like during the first half of the twentieth century. In the 1970s and early 1980s,...

At the End – You Meet God

March 7, 2022

Despite traveling across the Southern Appalachian Mountains throughout my childhood, I was not introduced to the Foxfire books until Fall 2016 by an undergraduate professor. My semester’s focus was...

It Still Lives, Season 4 Episode 2: Craft & Community

March 1, 2022

Host Kami Ahrens and Foxfire weaver Sharon Grist take a field trip to the John C. Campbell Folk School to meet with Allie Dudley, the school’s new resident artist and a flourishing young...

It Still Lives, Season 4 Episode 1: A Diary of an Appalachian Garden

February 1, 2022

“Nature Happens Here”We are kicking off Season 4 of It Still Lives with an interview from with art lover, gardener, and author Mignon Durham to talk about her passion project Devotion...

Selecting a Spinning Wheel

January 25, 2022

We often get requests from folks about buying looms or spinning wheels. Our Village Weaver, Sharon Grist, recently shared some good advice on selecting the right spinning wheel for yourself: ...

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