Foxfire 4: Water Systems, Fiddle Making, Logging, Gardening, Sassafras Tea, Wood Carving, and Further Affairs of Plain Living [Hardcover]

Eliot Wigginton (Editor)

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Publication Date: October 1977

Fiddle making, spring houses, horse trading, sassafras tea, berry buckets, gardening, and other affairs of plain living are the topics covered in this volume.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Fiddle making, spring houses, horse trading, sassafras tea, berry buckets, gardening, and other affairs of plain living are the topics covered in this volume. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Fiddle making, spring houses, horse trading, sassafras tea, berry buckets, gardening, and other affairs of plain living are the topics covered in this volume. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 496 pages
• Publisher: Doubleday (October 1977)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0385120869
• ISBN-13: 978-0385120869
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.2 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,067,702 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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28 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars We owe so much for the preservation of our culture., November 7, 1999

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Phillip L Cook (Nashville, Tennessee) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Foxfire 4 (Paperback)

Being a native of rural Appalachia, we owe so much to Mr. Wiggington for the preservation of our culture. No other, in my knowledge has done so much. The entire seires of Foxfire books is a tribute to the plain, industrious, pragmatic, proud mountain ways that I so fondly recall from my childhood. Whether you are doing research, or simply trying to remember how granddaddy did it, these books are an excellent source of knowledge.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ANOTHER GREAT EFFORT TO PRESERVE OUR PAST, April 13, 2007

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D. Blankenship (The Ozarks) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Foxfire 4 (Paperback)

This work, Volume IV, is like the others. A wonderful history of how it was. In this day and age of having most needs meet and something for everyone on the Wal-mart shelf, we tend to forget just what it was like in our not too distant past. These books, the Foxfire books, brings to light skills, attitudes and a way of life that is all but forgotten. This is a good thing. When a people lose their history, they lose part of their soul. As the title of this work states, from fiddle making to horse trading, this addresses many of the old forgotten skills and there is so much more. The editors have done a wonderful job. They have made a very honest effort to replicate the dialect of those places and times and I feel that this is a big part of the charm of these books. I am old enough to have known many of the kinds of folks featured in these books, being only one generation past them, and have a great appreciation for what and how they did all the little things we take so for granted now. I might also suggest that you actually try some of the things mentioned in these volumes. It will give you even more of an appreciation for what they did, and hey, who knows, the skill you develope just might come in handy one of these days! Recommend this and the other Foxfire books highly.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Just Like The Good Old Days, March 20, 2009

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This review is from: Foxfire 4 (Paperback)

Out of the four that I have read it gives me a warm feeling inside to read them and puts a smile on my face. The students that did the research did a yeoman's job of it. They will make you proud of them with their sensitivity and caring. We all would be better off if America was like that now. Old people are a valuable resource of knowledge and humor. These books are superb.