United States, Georgia, Rabun County, Mountain City, 34.91815, -83.38544Mendonca, Adrienn2005-09-16Encyclopedia article about Foxfire. In the fall of 1966, teacher Eliot Wigginton and his students at the Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School embarked on a mission to interview older community residents and document the skills, traditions, experiences, and history of the Appalachian culture they all shared. All told, this oral history program, set in the southern Appalachian hills of Georgia, would last for decades and produce books, records, videotapes, a museum, a Web site, a Hollywood movie, and an ongoing magazine. The program is still active under the auspices of the Foxfire Fund Inc. Maintaining the program's original purpose, Foxfire has continued to empower students by giving them a sense of pride, ownership, and responsibility in both the products of the program and the continuation of the Appalachian way of life.text/htmlengForms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.Foxfire FundOral history--GeorgiaFolklore--GeorgiaGeorgia--Social life and customsEducation, Rural--GeorgiaFoxfireText