This episode features special hosts, two local high school students who are participants in the summer, immersive Foxfire Fellowship. The fellows this summer decided to create a special episode...
With the recent passing of Foxfire magazine contact Doug Adams (Spring/Summer 2018), we asked his daughter and former Foxfire student Allison Adams to share some reflections on his life and legacy....
As we say goodbye to yet another intern, we asked our spring intern Chelsea Flowers to sum up her experiences at Foxfire. I feel like I just got here! The reality is, it’s been four months and...
On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eighteen… The first World War finally came to a close. November 11, 2018...
Science was the focus on Friday, September 28, during a yarn dyeing demonstration with weaver Sharon Grist and her apprentice Amber. They had two dyes to try: yellow-orange cosmos flowers from the...
Somehow, the summer has evaporated and school has begun. With the beginning of the fall semester, our talented magazine students have left the land to return to the classroom. Over the course of...
As in, Brown University students Halle Fowler and Amelia Golcheski. Perhaps it was serendipity or just coincidence, but this summer we have the honor of hosting these two outstanding young scholars...
In order to provide more opportunities for high-school-aged students in Rabun County, Foxfire is altering its long-running magazine program. After much discussion within our organization and with...
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.