Living Off The Grid

I had purchased the entire set of Foxfire books (one at a time) from Amazon awhile back and was under the impression that they’d stopped making them a long, long time ago. These first came out in the 1970s (the first three before I was even born) and recorded knowledge from the old-timers of Appalachia in and around Rabun County, Georgia.

Those first old-timers – like the wise, hardened and completely lovable Aunt Arie and the cantankerous, ornery moonshiner Simmie Free – were already on the verge of extinction back then and can only be listened to and learned from in the pages of those first Foxfire books.

But come to find out, Foxfire has been keeping the flame alive all these years and you can still subscribe to their magazine, which puts out two thick issues ever year!