Title: 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.
Authors: Wigginton, Eliot.; Wigginton, Eliot.
Publisher: Anchor Press,
Year: 1973
Subjects: Country life Georgia.; Handicraft Georgia.; Country life Georgia.; Handicraft; Georgia Social life and customs.
Abstract: Interviews and essays describe the way of life and crafts of pioneer America still surviving in the Appalachian region.
Contents: 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 Runion.