Hobbies - Foxfire

Mountain-Style Plumbing: Making Log Water Pipes

April 8, 2022

Adapted from Foxfire Magazine, Spring 1976 Original article by Bob O’Dwyer. Interviews, photos, and diagrams by Bob O’Dwyer, Jeff Fears, and John Matthies. When it comes to modern homes, few of us...

It Still Lives, Season 4 Episode 3: Quilting & Community

April 5, 2022

April’s podcast episode is continuing the conversation on craft and community. Quilter Zak Foster stopped by the Foxfire Museum to take a look at our textile collection and talk about his...

It Still Lives, Season 4 Episode 2, Part 2: Weaving in the Mountains

March 22, 2022

We are continuing are exploration of weaving in the southern mountains with this look back at what the craft looked like during the first half of the twentieth century. In the 1970s and early 1980s,...

At the End – You Meet God

March 7, 2022

Despite traveling across the Southern Appalachian Mountains throughout my childhood, I was not introduced to the Foxfire books until Fall 2016 by an undergraduate professor. My semester’s focus was...

Heritage Days

March 7, 2022

Our favorite summer event returns! Come celebrate all things Appalachia at this two-day event, full of demonstrators, crafts, food, and music. Tickets available at the door. Additional parking and a...

Blacksmithing Hammer-In

March 7, 2022

Join us for this community event for both blacksmiths and the general public! Walk through the Foxfire Museum and visit with blacksmiths from throughout Southern Appalachia. Learn about the craft...

Afternoon Plant Identification Walk

March 4, 2022

Join us for a guided plant identification walk in Southern Appalachia – one of the most botanically diverse regions of the world, led by Cara-Lee Langston of Wildcraft Kitchen. As we meander...

It Still Lives, Season 4 Episode 2: Craft & Community

March 1, 2022

Host Kami Ahrens and Foxfire weaver Sharon Grist take a field trip to the John C. Campbell Folk School to meet with Allie Dudley, the school’s new resident artist and a flourishing young...

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