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A recent Foxfire collection spotlights the lives of 21 Appalachian women, who capture the depth and breadth of life in the mountains. It collects oral histories from throughout Foxfire’s long history, beginning with early interview subjects in the ‘60s and ‘70s and continuing through today.
Since 1967, Foxfire has been a storehouse of traditional Appalachian knowledge that still helps people today. It continues to preserve music and history,
The Foxfire series, as editor Kami Ahrens explains in the introduction to "The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Women," began when "a group of rowdy high school students and their English teacher in Rabun Gap, Georgia, decided to create a literary magazine in 1966."