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Foxfire EZine: The Covid Series, Part 3

Foxfire EZine: The Covid Series, Part 3

July 16, 2020

As our Foxfire fellows gear up for a unique summer of socially distanced oral histories, we’ve encouraged them to investigate how the coronavirus is impacting Appalachia. In this third part,...
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Foxfire EZine: The Covid Series, Part 3

Foxfire EZine: The Covid Series, Part 2

July 9, 2020

As our Foxfire fellows gear up for a unique summer of socially distanced oral histories, we’ve encouraged them to investigate how the coronavirus is impacting Appalachia. In this second...
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It Still Lives: Season 2, Shape Note Music

It Still Lives: Season 2, Shape Note Music

July 7, 2020

  In Appalachia, shape-note singing dominated musical and religious groups. Shape-note music, often referred to by the song book used, such as Sacred Harp or Christian Harmony, uses different...
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Foxfire EZine: The Covid Series, Part 3

Foxfire EZine: The Covid Series

June 25, 2020

As our Foxfire fellows gear up for a unique summer of socially distanced oral histories, we’ve encouraged them to reach out to people in their lives to start their investigation of how the...
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Log Hewing

Log Hewing

May 8, 2020

Curator Barry Stiles takes us through the process of hand-hewing a log. All log cabins in this region of the mountains were made of hewn logs. This was a process for squaring-off logs to make...
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