2014

Foxfire News

Beck Barn Nearing Completion

While the road has been long and winding, the Beck Barn journey
is nearing its culmination. Reconstruction of this local four-pen,
crossed-hall barn began in 2013, and a series of community work
days have been held, including during this years Living History Day
on Saturday, April 5, to engage the public in the project. Time and
the elements became critical factors this spring, though, and outside
resources were tapped to finish replacing damaged logs on the fourth
and final pen, set floor joists and floor the loft, and erect a completelynew tin roof. Except for the outlying shed roofs to be added back on
the left and right sides, the Beck Barn is now very nearly complete.
Thanks are extended once again to the late Sam Beck for donating
his familys barn, to contractors Lloyd Bradley and Terry Pierson for
their work to complete the Barn, and to former Foxfire student Sam
Adams, who cut and delivered several 32-foot-long logs to replace
deteriorated loft-wall beams, and then supplied a boom truck to assist
setting those monsters in place, tying the Barns pens back together.
Soon to provide a home for the Foxfire Museums collection of farming
equipment, the Beck Barn once again stands tall as it nears completion.
Replacing damaged logs in the Beck Barn required teamwork (left), careful measurement (center), and finely-tuned detail work (right) to complete.

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Additions to Foxfires Board of Directors

Dr. Laura West was raised in Peak, SC, a rural town with a
population of 60. She graduated from Clemson and subsequently Wake
Forest School of Medicine with honors. As a primary care physician,
she has practiced in private practice and a Christian-based charitable
clinic in Atlanta. After being a part-time resident for 25 years, Dr. West
recently relocated to the Rabun County area and works at Clayton
Medical Clinic. She finds personal satisfaction from caring for her
neighbors in a community culturally closer to her roots than Atlanta.
Dr. West has long appreciated those who lived a self-sufficient full life
without modern day benefits.
Prior to his appointment with the University of Georgias Archway
Partnership, Rick Story served as the Director of Georgia Operations
for FrogueClark and managed the firms Atlanta office. Serving as a
member of Governor Nathan Deals senior staff in Washington and
Atlanta for well over a decade, Mr. Story served as the Director of
Executive Appointments. Mr. Story attended the University of Georgia
before receiving a Liberal Arts degree from Young Harris College and a
B.B.A. in Marketing from the University of West Georgia. He currently
resides in Rabun County.
George Wood is currently Superintendent of Schools at Federal
Hocking Local Schools, Stewart, OH. Prior to that, he served 18 years as
principal of Federal Hocking High Schoolnamed a Mentor School by
the Gates Foundation, a First Amendment School by ASCD, an Ohios
Best School by the Ohio Department of Education, and one of Americas
Best Schools by Readers Digest. He came to Federal Hocking from a
professorship at Ohio University, where he studied the work of Foxfire,
that inquiry appearing in his book, Schools that Work. He is the chair
of the Coalition of Essential Schools and also serves on the Board of the
Paideia Foundation. His wife, Marcia, retired in 2014 from over three
decades of teaching kindergarten.
Jack Parish serves as the Associate Dean for Outreach and Engagement

in the College of Education at the University of Georgia. He began his

work in education as a teacher in the Clayton County School District.
After 7 years at Riverdale High School, he spent twenty-two years in
administrative positions in the Henry County School District. Upon
retirement in June 2008, Dr. Parish began his work at the UGA College
of Educations Department of Lifelong Education, Administration &
Policy. He is a past-president of the Georgia School Superintendents
Association (GSSA), and has worked as the Executive Director of the
Georgia Association of Educational Leaders (GAEL). He currently serves
on the steering committee of the Georgia Educational Leadership Faculty
Association. He and his wife, Ashley, reside in Athens with their dog, Sam.
Carl Glickman is Professor Emeritus of Education at the University
of Georgia and President of the Institute for Schools, Education,
and Democracy. His career began as a Teacher Corps intern in the
rural South and later he was a principal of award-winning schools in
Maine and New Hampshire. He joined the faculty of UGA in 1979 and
founded the Georgia League of Professional Schools. His honors include
the University Professorship, and he was chosen by students as the
faculty member who had most contributed to their lives, inside and
outside the classroom. In 2004, he received The John Dewey Award
for Extraordinary Contributions to the Education of Young People in
America by the Vermont Society for The Study of Education.
Ruta Abolins is the Director of the Brown Media Archive & Peabody
Awards Collection housed in the Russell Special Collections Building at
the University of Georgia. She has over 20 years of experience working
with archival audiovisual materials and several years experience
curating exhibits. Ruta has served on the board of the Association of
Moving Image Archivists and works closely with the Board of Visitors
for the UGA Libraries. With degrees in filmmaking, popular culture,
and library science, her background is particularly suited to her current
work. In her personal time Ruta enjoys hiking and the outdoors.

The Foxfire Fund, Inc., Board of Directors Hunter Moorman, Chair John Erbele, Vice Chair Burgess Buz Stone, Secretary
James K. Hasson, Jr., Chair Emeritus Dr. Janet Rechtman, Chair Emeritus Jan Volk, Chair Emeritus Ruta Abolins Kaye Collins Dr. Edward Diden
Carl Glickman Leslie Graitcer Wilma Hutcheson-Williams Karon Miller Jack Parish Rick Story Dr. Laura West George Wood
Foxfire Community Board Karon Miller, President Jim Enloe, Vice-President Dr. Scott Beck Perry Bourlet Dickie Chastain Emma Chastain
Marie H. Chastain Kaye Collins Donna Dills Samantha Dixon Becky Flory Danny Flory Holly Henry-Perry Ramey Henslee
Amelia Herb Richard Hopkins Lisa McCall Joy Phillips Keifer Phillips Nicole Queen Samantha F. Ramey Bruce Russell Vicki York
Foxfire Staff Ann Moore, President Barry Stiles, Museum Curator Paulette Carpenter, Gift Shop Manager Jessica Sheriff, Administrative Assistant
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Special Thanks to everyone who supported our day-to-day operations through a greatest needs (or undesignated) contribution to last years Annual Appeal fund drive: Allison Adams, Lew Allen, Barbara J. Babinchak, Frank
Bachelder, Alan & Mary Barnes, John Barton, Dr. Jack Beaver, Michael & Mary Ann Best, Christina Bird-Holenda, Cheryl Blanton, Rev. Jimmy Bowden Sr., Ms. Judie Bradley, Kathy & Charlie Breithaupt, Ronnie Brooks,
Wallace & Olivia Bruce, Karen Burke, Catharine Burkett, Alan Burton, Paulette Carpenter, Thurman & Kathy Carpenter, Paula Choate, Pat Clay, Sherry Cohen, Kaye Collins, Eula Connell, Conrads Family Foundation,
Ann Cooley, Drucilla Copeland, Nina G. Cornett, Jeanetta Cotman, Carol Cox, Joan Rivers Cox, John Y. Dean, Norman DesRosiers, Edd Diden, Mary Dillard, Jane A. Dolan, Betty Elkins, Gary Emery, John Erbele, Harry
Faircloth, Lamar & Sally Fleming, Mary Ann Frank, Randall Freysz, Bill & Patty Friend, Dale E. Fry, Ronald Geer, Carl Glickman, Ruth Gonlag, Yetta Goodman, Leslie Graitcer, Aldin & Shirley Griffin, F. Max Grist, Sharon
Grist, Thomas Hair, O. Emerson Ham Jr. MD, John C. Hanson, Gary Haskins, James K. Hasson Jr., Edward Helms, Joseph Hickerson, Shannon Hobgood, Billy & Debra Hodge, Mrs. Fred Huff, Arthur Hunsicker, Wanda Sue
Hunt, Wilma Hutcheson-Williams, Russell Jacobs Jr., Dave & Killeen Jensen, Sara Beth Johnson, Sandra Joiner, Fran Jones, Rev. Benjamin Jordan, Mae Keaton, Robert Kerska, Betty King, Rita Kirshstein, John Kravet, Harold
Lacey Jr., Edward LaPlant, Larry Layden, Mrs. Roger Legg, Charles A. Lewis Jr., Dr. Robin & Mrs. Mary Line, Carol Jean Linn, Lloyd Lucas, Pamela Madaus, John Malone, Kay Manfrede, Virginia Martin, Ted Maznicki,
McClure Family Foundation, Alan McDaniel, Richard W. McDowell, James N. McKee, Gae Noe McLendon Foundation Fund, Mary Mcl McManus, Mr. & Mrs. Richard Metzgar, Karon Miller, Michelle Miller, Morgan
Miller, Jay Mitchell, Mrs. James Moon, Ann Moore, Hunter Moorman, Quinn Murk, Richard Norman, Delma Odum, Dawn Owens, Linda Garland Page, Elizabeth Parker, Lorraine Parks, Laine S. Parrott, Barbara Passmore,
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Cobb Stone, Marlin Strand, Roslyn Strickland, Richard Topper, Mark Turpen, Rodney Tyus, Ann Veal, Wanda Veal, Jan Volk, Isabelle Watkins, Gail M. Watson, Tom & Laura West, Duffie Westheimer, Frank M. White, B.F.
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& P.J. Rossi. If you made a donation marked Greatest Needs during the last Annual Appeal and your name is not listed here, please contact us and let us know so that we can correct our records.

Giving BackJulia Fleet/Foxfire Scholarships

For over 35 years, Rabun County high school students involved

in Foxfire programs have received scholarship assistance from The
Foxfire Fund, Inc. These scholarships are currently funded through
an endowment established by philanthropist Julia B. Fleet, who came
to Foxfire looking for a way to express her affinity for the mountains
of north Georgia and the people she met here.
To receive a Julia Fleet/Foxfire scholarship, students must have
participated in The Foxfire Magazine program at Rabun County
High School. Consideration is given to quantity and quality of
participationFoxfire classes taken, number of articles written,
leadership positions held, and involvement with any special projects,
events, or committees. Scholarship recipients are encouraged to
maintain active volunteer involvement with Foxfirevolunteerism is
promoted as a way to help the students maintain ties to Foxfire itself,
and, more importantly, to maintain ties to their home community.
Scholarship awards are based on five criteria, including
participation in the Magazine program, financial need, volunteerism
(outside the classroom) for Foxfire, potential for success, and academic
achievement. Each year, the applicant pool is narrowed down to 5
candidates or less, and each applicant is interviewed by the Scholarship
Committee to determine final award levels. Each scholarship recipient
receives a fixed award amount for four contiguous years of college,

assuming they maintain full-time student status and a minimum

2.5 GPA. Community Board members Danny Flory, Ramey Henslee,
Karon Miller, Nicole Queen, Samantha Ramey, and Bruce Russell, Jr.
served as this year's Scholarship Committee.
In the scholarship programs 38 years, 322 local students have
been awarded a total of approximately $917,000. For the 20142015
academic year, four new scholarships have been awarded to John Lyle
Moore (attending Young Harris College), Jesse Owens (University
of North Georgia), Ethan Phillips (Piedmont College), and Taylor
Shirley (North Georgia Technical College). Nine other Rabun
County students are continuing their higher education this fall with
the assistance of the Julia Fleet/Foxfire Scholarship program: Kaley
Boatwright, Christina Dills, Brittany Houck, Alyssa LaManna,
Katie Lunsford, Kayla Mullen, Alex Owens, Anna Phillips, and
Shanda Speed. Together, these 13 students were awarded a total of
approximately $34,000 in support for continuing their educations.
Now in its 48th year, Foxfire continues its tradition of giving back
to Rabun County through the documentation of our local heritage in
The Foxfire Magazine, preservation of the Southern Appalachian way
of life at The Foxfire Museum & Heritage Center in Mountain City,
and helping our students further their education through the Julia
Fleet/Foxfire Scholarship program.

For the 20142015 academic year, the newest recipients of Julia Fleet/Foxfire Scholarships: visiting the Foxfire Museums woodworking shop,
(L-R) Ethan Phillips (holding a mallet), Jesse Owens (with a broad axe), Taylor Shirley (an auger), and John Lyle Moore (a crosscut saw).

Action-Packed Year
The Foxfire Museum & Heritage Center has played host to a wide
variety of events and groups this year. In addition to providing a
window into Southern Appalachias past for thousands of casual
visitors and dozens of tour groups, 2014 has seen the Museum
facilities provide a site for both private and public workshops,
week-long, camp-style teacher training courses, two major public
events, and a couple of in-house work projects.
Kicking off the season on Saturday, April 5, Foxfires Living
History Day (photos in column at left) again brought the Museum to
life with volunteers in period clothing, demonstrating the everyday skills and crafts of 1800s Appalachia for visitors, and inviting

(Top) Living History Day visitors fill the Savannah House yard, watching (and
helping) former student Christy Dills do laundry, 1800s-style. (Above) Blacksmith
Wind Chapman (tophat) and former Foxfire student David Campbell fire the
forge and ring the anvils in the blacksmith shop. (Below) Former student Jennifer
Mitcham assists the little ones in churning butter.

This smiling, laughing group of students and teachers spent most of the summer
working out of the Museums archive building. Curious what (Top to Bottom)
Ethan Phillips, Jon Blackstock, Ross Lunsford, Jesse Owens, Katie Lunsford, Kaye
Collins, and Jessica Phillips were up to this summer? Heres a hint: Foxfire has a
relatively major anniversary coming up in 2016, just two short years from now.

r at Foxfire Museum
them to try their own hands at things like making rope with a
simple machine and doing laundry without a machinejust
wooden tubs and a wood paddle.
The remaining spring months saw numerous school group tours,
including the annual visit from Rabun Countys own fourth grade
classes, taking three days to accommodate the grades 200+ students,
each of whom return to school with a Museum activity booklet and
other goodies. The Museums conference and dorm facilities were
occupied for much of June with groups of older students during
week-long, immersive summer courses in the Foxfire Approach
to Instruction. Offered through Foxfires partnership with nearby
Piedmont College, the courses give insight into the educational
ideas and choices that allowed early Foxfire Magazine students to
make decisions and grow their learning process beyond their rural
mountain classroom and ultimately around the world.
June also saw the introduction of two new Museum programs.
Foxfire curator Barry Stiles set aside time each Wednesday afternoon
in June, July, and August to lead open guided tours of the Museum.
Wednesday Wanders allowed casual visitors to experience a guided
tour of the Museum without the normal scheduling or group size
requirements. Then, each Friday afternoon of those same summer
months, the Museum invited a different traditional crafter or folk
artist to demonstrate and/or display their wares on the grounds.
Friday Folkgave Museum visitors a chance to meet and chat with
a variety of the regions practicing traditional artists and craftsfolk.
Early July saw the first of this years three Childrens Heritage
Day workshops (photos below), offering ages 818 a day of handson experience with woodworking, blacksmithing, candle-making,
folk art painting, and other traditional skills.
The Museums folk art extravaganza, Folk on The Mountain
(photos in column at right) moved to July 26 this year, which afforded
much better weather than last years rainy mess for the folk artists
filling the Bungalow field and the gift shop yard.

(Left) Childrens Heritage Day woodworking

assistant Grey Bourlet demonstrates drawknife and shaving horse technique. (Right) A
CHD participant proudly displays the handdipped candle that she had just completed.

(Above) Visitors come to Folk

on the Mountain to look at
the regions amazing folk art.
(Below) Sometimes, the folk
art looks back at the visitors!
(Right) Randall Castleberrys
hand-painted snakes were a
huge hit with the young crowd.

Foxfire Archive Audio Preservation

As reported in last years News, Foxfire was chosen to receive

funding from Rhapsody in Rabun, a neighboring non-profit
organization in Clayton, GA, that exists solely to support other local
non-profits. Rhapsody in Rabuns annual fund-raising event is a
black-tie charity gala evening with dinner, dancing, and live and
silent auctions. Raising money for one hopeful organization each
year, Rhapsody chooses recipients carefully, based on presented
proposals outlining very specific projects the organizations hope
to accomplish. Foxfire applied in 2012, hoping to receive funds to
apply toward digitizing thousands of hours of interviews recorded
on old magnetic, analog audiotape over the Foxfire Magazines 46year history. Audiotape is a moderately fragile media, subject to
degradation and failure with age, and Foxfire hoped to duplicate as
much as possible of the tape collection in one big push, before early
signs of integrity and quality issues became more serious. Foxfire
was successful in their bid with Rhapsody, and was chosen to receive
the 2013 Rhapsody in Rabun event proceeds for this project.
Foxfire received $50,000 from Rhapsody for the project in
November 2013, and an additional $10,000 from Dr. Anna Noe, who
learned of the project and wanted to help ensure the preservation of
Foxfires interview recordings. The project budget included minimal
equipment purchases, relying on donated and/or sufficientlycapable used hardware whenever possible, so that the bulk of
the funding could be applied toward labor costs in order to put a
handful of unemployed area residents to work on the project. Based
on calculations, it was determined that the project could employ four
part-time workers for just short of a year. Earline Carver Benefield,
Tucker Dixon, Lisa Gibson, and Holly Williamson were hired and
started operating tape decks and recording software on December 2,
2013, mere weeks after the funds were delivered to Foxfire.
The stated goal of the project is to digitize as much audiotape
source material as possible, primarily to preserve the contents for
the future. Priority was placed on older and more-fragile tapes,

with newer and more stable media to be processed later, as time

and funds allowed. Work progressed steadily through the winter
months, with Holly and Tucker digitizing material from 1/4 reelto-reel tapes while Earline and Lisa worked with more-modern (but
lower quality) audio cassette tapes. In late February, Tucker landed a
new, full-time job (congratulations!) and left the project. The decision
was made, based on progress to date at the time, not to replace him,
and Holly, Earline, and Lisa continued on.
In mid-July, Earline and Lisa completed the main cataloged
collection of audio cassettes, and moved on to special collections,
miscellaneous tapes, and relatively recent materials, including
material from the 45th Anniversary Book. After the 36th week of
work (early August), they had together generated approximately
3,200 digital audio recordings (each side of a cassette tape is counted
separately), with recordings ranging from mere minutes to full tapes
containing 30, 45, or sometimes 60 minutes per side.
Just under 800 digital audio recordings have been generated

Holly Williamson operates the lone functional reel-to-reel deck, an Otari

deck donated late last year by Clayton, GA, radio station Sky 104, WRBN.

Work has progressed steadily since last December, with a couple hundred reelto-reel tapes remaining to be digitized and nearly all cassette tapes completed.

Lisa Gibson operates an older TASCAM professional audio cassette

deck feeding into a modern TASCAM digital audio interface.

from reel-to-reel tapes by Tuckers early work and Hollys solo work
since the beginning of March. Reel-to-reel tapes typically contain 60
minutes per side, and the reel-to-reel tapes tend to be filled completely.
The one logistical issue at present is that while nearly all available
cassettes have now been digitized, there are an estimated 250 reelto-reel tapes still waiting. Unfortunately, the reel deck Tucker was
using failed completely just after he left, leaving Hollys reel deck as
the only one currently operational. An additional reel deck has been
ordered, and either Lisa or Earline will move over to that format and
help balance the remaining workload once it arrives.
All total, as of the 36th week, just shy of 4,100 digital audio
recordings have been produced, estimated to contain over 2,300
hours of interviews. Each recording is stored in two formatsthe
recording softwares native format and the near-universal .wav
formatall of which total up to roughly 4.25 terabytes of data. The
projects early estimate has been revised, with the archive currently
expected to yield a little over 3,000 total hours of interviewsa
target that is expected to be easily attainable with the project funds.
Each of the crew has something that they have truly appreciated
from their time listening to decades of Foxfire contacts. Holly enjoyed
listening to interviews of Harriet Echols and Marie Mellinger, and
especially noted that some of the interviews of Aunt Arie Carpenter
were recorded in stereo, directly onto reel-to-reel, and that formats
superior audio quality made it sound like Aunt Arie was in the
same room and speaking directly to her. Earline personally knew
many of the contacts whose recordings she digitized, and noted that
while she enjoyed learning new information and occasionally new
phrases or words along the way, hearing some of the contacts again
makes you miss the folks. Mary Carpenter, Lawton Brooks, and
Janie P. Taylor were among her favorite contacts to listen to. Lisa also
enjoyed Lawton Brooks, as well as Earlines father Buck Carver and
more recent material from former Foxfire Museum curator Robert
Murray. Lisa also commented on the large number of things shes
learned from the interviews, and how enjoyable it has been, with
the typically-quiet work routinely punctuated with chuckles, snorts,
and outright rolling laughter. Holly summed it up by saying, There
is an unimaginable treasure trove here in these tapes.

Earline Carver Benefield adds her latest digitized audio cassette to the
projects log book, a reference used to track all of the completed tapes.

Box after box of audio cassettes has been digitized over the last 9 months, with
many more tapes than expected found in storage at the Georgia State Archive.

Decades of Foxfire interviews were recorded onto standard cassette

tapes, with backup duplicates dubbed onto 1/4 reel-to-reel tapes.

Saturday, October 4 , 2014

In just a few weeks, on October 4, Foxfire invites

you to attend the Foxfire Mountaineer Festivala
jam-packed celebration of the heritage of Southern
Appalachia, held at the Rabun County Civic Center
in Clayton, GA. The Festival brings together a
spectacular mix of arts, crafts, music, food, and
funall while honoring the people who carved
our homes from the Appalachian wilderness, the
skills and crafts that helped them survive, the
traditional music they kept alive, and the good
times they enjoyed when the days work was done.
Quilters, broom-makers, candlemakers,
woodworkers, potters, metalsmiths, weavers,
luthiers, and morethe folks who keep the skills
and crafts of Southern Appalachia alivewill fill
the Civic Center and its surrounding grounds.
Visitors can browse these folks amazing
handiwork, observe them at work creating their
goods, and occasionally get a chance to try their
own hands at a few of these activities that Appalachian settlers performed every day. Great
regional music will fill the air throughout the dayand after the event as well, with a street
dance on Main Street, near the Universal Joint, from 6pm until 8pm.
Arts, crafts, and music make for a fun-filled day, but for the more energetic folksyoung
or young at heartwear comfortable, stainable clothes, and get ready for some traditional
non-electronic fun! See how long it takes to saw through a log with a two-man crosscut saw.
Demonstrate strength, endurance, and coordination with an axe in the wood-chopping contest.
Show teamwork in the three-legged race. Let the kids see what its like to chase after their
dinner in the greased-pig chases (dont worry, the pigs leave happy at the end of the day). The
Rascal Race returns this year, tooget your soapbox derby car ready and check the Festival
website for entry details. Ribbons and/or prizes will be awarded for most field events.
Plenty of good mountain food will be available at the Festival, along with the field events,
mountain crafts, a raffle and silent auction featuring items donated by local and regional
businesses, and so much more! Join the fun in downtown Clayton, GA, at the Rabun County
Civic Center on Saturday, October 4, from 10am until 5pm. Admission is $5, kids 5 & under get
in free, and there is a maximum charge of $25 per family. Visit www.foxfiremountaineer.org
for more information, driving directions, and current exhibitor, music, and field-event details.

Mountaineer

Festival

@ Rabun County Civic Center, 201 West Savannah Street, Clayton

The Heritage of Southern Appalachia

SKILLS CRAFTS MUSIC GAMES FOOD FUN

foxfiremountaineer.org
The Foxfire Mountaineer Festival is produced by Foxfires Community Board, and is funded in part by donations from local businesses. Most event proceeds
support Foxfires local programs, helping our local high school students grow stronger ties to their community and their rich mountain heritage.