Foxfire 11 – Foxfire Fund

Because this plant is rare and endangered, readers are asked to refrain from gathering it. Quince (Prunus) is used by many in the Southern Appalachian region. It is a shrubby bush that can reach approximately eight feet in height and five feet in width. This bush is thorny and has solitary leaves. It blooms in early spring with reddish flowers that resemble old-fashioned roses. The fruits are a little larger than a nectarine and have a hard core. This fruit was often used for making jelly, while the entire shrub itself was planted in rows and used as a fence line.

Of quince, Clarence Lusk recalled, “Another thing that we keep all the time is quince jelly. It’s good for hiccups. I was told to put quince in regular sweet jelly. I don’t know whether the sweet has something to do with it or not, but it stops the hiccups, even in the hospital. My mother-in-law sent some to a friend of hers in the hospital with stomach trouble because he had the hiccups. He took some of that jelly, and the hiccups went away.

The doctor hadn’t been able to stop those hiccups!” Ratsbane (Chimaphila umbellata) enjoys shady, wooded areas of pine forests in dry soil. It gets no taller than one foot and has dark evergreen leaves that are positioned close to the top of the stem. In summer, sweet-smelling white to pink flowers arrive in clusters. It is gathered for the leaves only or for the entire plant. Also called rat’s vein, a tea could be made from it for coughs, backaches, bladder, kidney, and stomach problems.

To make this remedy, boil two or three whole plants for several minutes in about a pint of water. Strain and sweeten. Rattlesnake Fern (Botrychium virginianum). Marie Meilinger wrote, “Two ferns mark the site of ginseng and are found in close association with the other sang-sign plants. The rattlesnake fern is known as the ‘hope of ginseng’ This is a lacy-leaved fern with spikes of yellow-brown spore cases in early spring. These supposedly resemble the rattles of a rattlesnake. The bright yellow spore powder is applied to insect bites or snakebites.

It may be called rattlesnake fern because it grows in the often rocky woods that are the haunt of the timbler rattler.

This book is dedicated to all the people still searching for their place in the world; to those who have found and cherish their sense of place; and to all the people here in these mountains who have helped us find our place. OceanofPDF.com CONTENTS Acknowledgments Introduction The Old Homeplace Wit, Wisdom, and Remembrances Gardens and Commercial Farms Preserving and Cooking Food Wild Plant Uses Beekeeping Technology and Tools Farm Animals Hunting Stories Fishing Personality Portraits Annie Chastain Billy Long Lillie Nix Contributors OceanofPDF.com ACKNOWLEDGMENTS With any Foxfire project, so many people contribute so much that it would be almost impossible to name and thank all of them individually.

We owe so much gratitude to students who, over the years, have gathered the information for the books and made the program a success; to parents who often carry the students on the interviews; and to current teachers Angie Cheek and Joyce Green and Principal Matt Arthur at Rabun County High School, who provide a base of operations and unfailing support and guidance for the magazine program.

In particular, we owe a special thanks to the many people who helped us in the production of Foxfire 11. This book was edited entirely by former students who worked when they came home from college, when they had time off of their regular jobs, or around their other jobs. Without Teresia Gravley Thomason, Amy York, and Robbie Bailey, we could not have finished this book on schedule or with the diversity and perspective it managed to achieve.

Teresia, while on summer vacation from her job with Pioneer RESA, produced both the “Wild Plant Uses” chapter and “Wit, Wisdom, and Remembrances,” as well as looking at the rest of our sections for grammar and stylistic problems. Amy, who had just graduated from high school and was preparing to go to college, completed the “Hunting Stories” and “Farm Animals” chapters.

Robbie, the three-time veteran of Foxfire book production, compiled the “Fishing” and “The Old Homeplace” chapters and frequently told us what to expect next in the process of compiling the book. Our help did not just come from former students. Many friends and family members of both the Foxfire 11 crew and the Foxfire program also helped in the production of the book.

Bill and Pat Gravley and Jane Thomason and Warren Thomason answered questions on everything from recipes to chickens on a regular basis throughout the summer. For a few weeks, we were at the house of J. C. Stubblefield and Bernice Taylor weekly, conducting interviews for nearly every section of the book.

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