The periodical version eventually led to the full-length Foxfire Book, published by Anchor Books/Doubleday. Being a fan of the sixties and seventies in general – the music and films from those decades are some of my favorites – I was enthralled immediately by this student project led by a high school English teacher, whose teaching style and ideas seemed similar to my own. Inside, I browsed among local authors and books on local subjects – because what better reason is there to visit an independent bookstore in a small Southern town? – and stumbled across Foxfire.įoxfire is a student-produced journal created and led by a man named Eliot Wigginton when he was an English teacher in Rabun County in the late 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. In town, on the main corner of the main drag, what did I find but a bookstore: Prater’s Main Street Books. After several days in my cabin, when the walls started closing in, I decided it was time to head into town before I began veering toward something like The Shining. Smith Foundation, and was heading to Clayton to spend two weeks writing in a cabin that had once been a bunkhouse in Smith’s camp for girls. I had been awarded a Writer-in-Service Residency from the Lillian E. I had never heard of Foxfire before I went to Clayton, Georgia in the summer of 2010.
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