In her note at the front of The Foxfire Book of Simple Living, our past executive director Ann Moore writes from the porch of the Moore House in the midst of Living History Days (now Foxfire...
Foxfire Heritage Day is in the books and it was a tremendous success! The weather mostly behaved itself, holding out until near the end of the event to release the downpour, and of the some 500...
Last year, Joy Phillips, a Foxfire alumnus and language arts teacher at Rabun County Elementary School, and M’ryanne Peacock, a math and science teacher also at RCES, worked with gifted and...
We are just about a week away from our Foxfire Heritage Day event and are busily running all over this mountain getting everything ready. Barry and Dave (aka Dexter, Handyman Extraordinaire) have...
At the time when many of the crops planted in the spring were gathered in and preserved for the winter to come, our attention was turned to a phenomenon that had fascinated us for some time – that...
Every year the Foxfire class goes to the Foxfire Museum and Heritage Center to take the tour with Barry through the museum. It introduces new Foxfire students to the history behind what we do and...
Foxfire’s mission is to preserve and develop the public’s appreciation for Southern Appalachian history – its history, people, and traditions – through artifacts, oral history, and programs that interpret, document and celebrate the region, and fosters self-directed, community-based classroom instruction following the Foxfire Core Practices.