Foxfire

Depicts the writing, editing, retailing, layout, researching methods, photography, makeup and design, art, and advertising of Foxfire, a magazine published by high school students in Rabun Gap, Georgia. Describes B. Eliot Wiggenton's conception of the project in 1969 as an alternative method of instruction. Shows the students recording Appalachian folk culture, such as soap making, water divining, and hog hunting, for the magazine., Depicts the writing, editing, retailing, layout, researching methods, photography, makeup and design, art, and advertising of Foxfire, a magazine published by high school students in Rabun Gap, Georgia. Describes B. Eliot Wiggenton's conception of the project in 1969 as an alternative method of instruction. Shows the students recording Appalachian folk culture, such as soap making, water divining, and hog hunting, for the magazine., In 1967, Eliot Wiggenton, a high school English teacher in Rabun Gap, Georgia, started an educational revolution. He set an unmotivated class to the task of recording the lore, legends and crafts of their Appalachian folk heritage. The students learned by going into the hills and interviewing the rural people and publishing their findings in Foxfire magazine.