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Foxfire 6 : shoemaking, gourd banjos, and songbows, one hundred toys and games, wooden locks, a water powered sawmill, and other affairs of just plain living / - 1st ed. - Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1980. - 507 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes "Cumulative index for Foxfire 4, Foxfire 5 and Foxfire 6."

Jake Waldroop -- Gourd banjos and songbows -- Wooden locks -- Shoemaking -- Toys and games -- "Uncle John was in the crib stealing corn" -- "I did the best I could with the brain nature gave me" -- Memories of the American chestnut -- The homeplace.

The latest volume in the successful series updates previous volumes and collects new crafts, reminiscences, and stories from Appalachia.

ISBN: 038515271X 9780385152716 0385152728 (pbk.) 9780385152723 (pbk.)

LCCN: 79006541

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Country life--Georgia.
Handicraft--Georgia.
Country life--Appalachian Region, Southern.
Handicraft--Appalachian Region, Southern.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Georgia--Social life and customs.
Appalachian Region, Southern--Social life and customs.

LC Class. No.: F291.2 / .F624

Dewey Class. No.: 975