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...
In October of 2016, the University of Georgia honored The Foxfire Magazine Program by celebrating our 50th anniversary. The staff at the university created an outstanding display that was dedicated...
Four months into my role as Foxfire’s executive director, I sit in this ever-increasingly-cluttered office, window open to one of the first true days of spring we’ve seen here on The Land....
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...
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...
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.