Foxfire 2 : ghost stories, spring wild plant foods, spinning and weaving, midwifing, burial customs, corn shuckin's, wagon making and more affairs of plain living

Cooper, Susan. Foxfire. (Added Author). Wigginton, Eliot. (Added Author).

Summary: Interviews and essays describe the way of life and crafts of pioneer America still surviving in the Appalachian region.

Record details

ISBN: 0385022670
ISBN: 9780385022675
Physical Description: print
410 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor Press [Anchor Books], 1973.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Maude Shope -- Sourwood honey -- Beekeeping -- Spring wild plant foods -- Happy dowdle -- Making an ox yoke -- Wagon wheels and wagons -- Making a tub wheel -- Making a foot-powered lathe -- From raising sheep to weaving cloth -- How to wash clothes in an iron pot -- Anna Howard -- Midwives and granny women -- Old-time burials -- Boogers, witches, and haints -- Corn shuckin's, house raisin's, quiltin's, pea thrashin's, singin's, log rollin's, candy pullin's, and... -- Kenny reunion.