The Foxfire Museum

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As children, we all received warnings to behave or else Santa would leave lumps of coal in our stockings. But how many of us understand the complicated history of coal? This month's episode of #ItStillLives explores coal in Appalachia. Listen at foxfire.org!

Celebrate #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth by lifting up indigenous voices! Listen to this podcast with Gil Jackson (EBCI) and Dr. Trey Adcock (Cherokee Nation) about how they are preserving Cherokee oral histories in Snowbird: foxfire.org/it-still-lives-s…

We made it through another festival with plenty of banjo playing, buck dancing, and, yes, animal-friendly pig chasing. It's just not fall without the Foxfire Mountaineer Festival!

Our friends over @BRBartramTrail are hosting a Spanish-language hike on October 22nd as part of #HispanicHeritageMonth!

We're excited to participate in this weekend's Hispanic Heritage Heritage Month Celebration with the Habersham Historical Society. If you're in Cornelia, stop by and check it out!

If If you've listened to the latest episode of #ItStillLives, you'll have already heard Stanley Hick's story about cat hides! Not all luthiers used cat skin for their drumheads - Tedra Harmon (pictured below) used hides from pesky groundhogs!

At the museum, we're seeing chestnuts and chinquapins falling all over! What's the difference? The chestnuts on the ground come from the Chinese chestnut, as the American chestnut cannot grow to maturation. Chinquapins are also known as dwarf chestnuts - they're tiny!

We are SO excited to share the cover design for our newest book, The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Women. The book will be released March 2023 and pre-orders for this inspiring volume will be available later this fall. @UNC_Press #appalachia #women #oralhistory

"The fiddle and the banjo, they's kind of get-up-and-go music." Buna Hicks New #podcast out today on #ItStillLives featuring interviews with regional #banjo makers and a few songs as well! Find it wherever you get your podcasts or over on foxfire.org

Look no further for your weekend read, the newest #FoxfireMagazine is here! Check out this amazing compilation of student work including interviews, art, and more. Available on the web or in our museum shop. Grab your copy before they sell out!

Happy #FaceJugFriday! Renowned potter Lanier Meaders adds the finishing touches to some of his signature face jugs. Many of Lanier's relatives made #pottery in and around White County, GA, including his dad Cheever and mom Arie.

#FoodForThought: Have an abundance of beans this year? Looking for an easy way to preserve them? Make leather britches! "We'd take a great big long string and string the green beans and hang them up to dry. Those were leather britches to cook in the wintertime." ~Carrie Stewart

We're gearing up for a new podcast drop next week on #ItStillLives! We're taking a look back at banjo making in Southern Appalachia, from its roots in West Africa to modern bluegrass. Most folks interviewed by #Foxfire in the 70s still played traditional, unfretted banjos!