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From: "Joe Showalter" <>
Subject: Re: [Melungeon] Foxfire Books
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 17:12:12 -0400


Hi Karen,

I have a lot of them, but I'm partin' with 'em! :-)

I checked with http://www.alibris.com and found several pages of each title
I searched for. Use the search utility and enter the title like so:
"Foxfire 3" or which ever number you are looking for. Be sure to ENCLOSE
THE TITLE IN QUOTES or you will get every book with foxfire in the title.
That might be fun if you have a lot of time but in this case you will get
1138 titles. These are all used books and prices range from $35.00 to
$8.00, or at least that was the case for the pages I checked. I found that
some volumes don't list the author.

Another good book by Elliot Wigginton is: I Wish I Could Give My Son a Wild
Raccoon. It's a series of interviews of older folks from all over the
country and from every ethnic background you can think of. Well it was
older folks when my wife gave me the book in 1977. A great many of them
seem to be about my age now. Go figger.

Peace --Joe



-----Original Message-----
From: Leonard Gallenberg <>
To: <>
Date: Saturday, October 14, 2000 4:56 AM
Subject: Re: [Melungeon] Foxfire Books


>Hi, have been looking for these books for quite sometime, anyone knowing
where I get them, please let me know
>thanks
>karen
>
>Tari Adams - Manager - Northern Medical Systems wrote:
>
>> Anyone interested in reading about the old mountain ways should try to
find copies of the Foxfire Books. My grandpaw has them and they are
wonderful. They are full of all the stories, remedies, even how to make a
fiddle! How any of them lived thru some of t
>hose remedies, like the one about swallowing a spider web- YUK. I don't
know whether I would want to be sick or take the medicine LOL. Anyway, I do
not know if they are currently in print. I guess one could check Amazon. My
gpaw picked them up at a yard slae
>or flea market.
>>
>> Tari
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