Former teacher Eliot Wigginton worked with his students in Appalachian Georgia to create a literary magazine in 1966 that detailed the lives and skills of community elders. The collected stories were eventually condensed into the Foxfire Book Series, and the Foxfire Magazine is still produced twice a year by the high school students in Rabun County, Georgia.
It has also broadened into a non-profit organization called The Foxfire Fund and the Foxfire Museum and Center, which preserves historic log cabins and other artifacts of Appalachian mountain culture. Foxfire promotes an educational approach as well, based upon eleven Core Principles that work to engage students in their local communities and learn through collaboration and hands-on connections to place. The organization describes the program as “blurring the lines between community and classroom.”
Region
Georgia
More Information
PO Box 541
Mountain City, GA 30562-0541
706-746-5828 (phone)
706-746-5829 (fax)