Calling All Mountaineers!
Yes, it is upon us! The 2017 Foxfire Mountaineer Festival is mere days away and the office is buzzing with anxiety excitement! As this is my first Mountaineer Festival as Foxfire’s executive...
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Folk Art
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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Foxfire Films: Milissa Ellison Dewey
As part of our efforts to enhance Foxfire’s connection to the public, We have been working with filmmaker Danielle McClennan on creating short documentary videos for the museum and its related...
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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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Notes from The Land
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...
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A grand day
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...
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Foxfire Heritage Day Sneak Peek!
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...
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Art in color: A reflection on my interview with Eric Legge
I just wanted to start off this blog entry by stating that the Eric Legge interview and article is one of my favorites from my time in Foxfire. I went on this interview when I was a freshman in high...
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