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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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.