notes from the land: autumn is coming
Do you feel it? Yes, I know it’s only August, but here on The Land we’re being blessed with unseasonably cool temperatures and our minds are already turning to autumn golds. For the past...
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Foxfire Summer Leadership Film Project
Back in June, as part of their Summer Leadership program, the Foxfire students worked with Danielle McClennan of Scratch Made Media and got a crash course on short-form documentary film making using...
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Folklore of the Eclipse :: 08.21.17
As a special program at Foxfire, we will be hosting a day of eclipse and solar folklore, games, and tours on August 21, 2017, for the Total Solar Eclipse. The northern half of Rabun County will be...
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Research Spotlight: Savannah House
The majority of my time as a Foxfire intern is dedicated to researching the history behind many of the log buildings here at the museum. Using resources like Foxfire’s own archives and online...
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Foxfire Homecoming & Ann Moore Gate House Dedication
This past Sunday, some 30 or so past Foxfire students and contacts gathered on the mountain for an afternoon of good eats, reminiscences, and quite a few laughs. The weather mostly behaved itself...
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Volume 1, No. 1
This Sunday, we will be hosting former Foxfire students and past Foxfire contacts for a little homecoming dinner at The Land. It’s a chance for those of us who can make it to come together,...
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Medicine, Mules, & Moonshine Stills
What a week! What a rewarding, enriching, and fun-filled week! Foxfire has been alive with so much activity, I can hardly focus my memory to catch it all. This marked the first week of Summer...
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Summer Interns: Ellen Boggs
School’s out, the days are getting warmer, and the coming weeks on the The Land are gearing up to be very productive. A large part of our summer goals revolve around enhancements to the...
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