Wow, talk about bringing back memories---while stocking our booth recently a college student was browsing in the booth next door to ours and picked up these vintage issues of the Foxfire Magazine. She asked me if I knew what they were about. I told her what I could remember about the publication and the interesting stories about life in the mountains of North Georgia and about the books that were later published as a result of the successful magazines. She got me interested in doing a little more research, and I discovered that Foxfire Magazines are still being published today. Get the whole story
here and come on down to OCT to get your vintage copies of this great magazine.
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Find these vintage copies of "Foxfire" at OCT |
The term "foxfire" is a name commonly applied to several species of bioluminescent fungi that grow on rotting wood in damp forests (like the Southern Appalachians) during the warmer months. These fungi typically produce a dim blue-green glow that can be seen only in dark, starlit areas, away from any artificial lights or moonlight.
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A recent issue of "Foxfire" magazine |
"Foxfire" is the name that an English class picked, in 1966, for a student-produced magazine they
chose to create, containing stories and interviews gathered from elders in their rural Southern Appalachian community.