Thanks for this fascinating post, Penny!
By the way, the Foxfire Books are wonderful, and well known in some
circles (e.g., folklorists, cultural anthropologists,
conservationists, craftspeople, and former Hippies!). I believe you
can still get them all, and new volumes are still being developed. Go
to the source: http://www.foxfire.org/prodFFbooks.html
--Ruth Anne Baumgartner
scholar gypsy and amateur costumer
On Sep 29, 2007, at 3:43 AM, Penny Ladnier wrote:
I talked with my Aunt Susie last night about ironing and keeping
cotton and linen cool before ironing. She was born in 1922. I
love my sweet aunt... she is very intelligent and her memory as
clear as a bell.
<snip>
My aunt said there was a teacher in Georgia who sent her students
on assignment to record the old ways of doing things from the
elders in the area. These were published in a series named
Foxfire. My aunt owned two volumes of Foxfire but Hurricane
Katrina took them, along with the rest of her home. Aunt Susie
said the series were all kinds of recipes and methods of how to do
all sorts of things.
Penny Ladnier,
Owner, The Costume Gallery Websites
www.costumegallery.com
www.costumelibrary.com
www.costumeclassroom.com
www.costumeencyclopedia.com
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