Yet this conjunction also produced one of the era’s most enduring documents, The Foxfire Book. Billed as a guide to “hog dressing, log cabin building, mountain crafts and foods, planting by the signs, snake lore … and other affairs of plain living,” it was the outgrowth of a quarterly magazine put out by a high school in Rabun Gap, in the Appalachian region of Georgia. All this was the brainchild of a teacher named Eliot Wigginton, who had arrived at the school in 1966 and initially struggled to reach his students. He solved the problem by encouraging them to study their own regional
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