The Foxfire Museum — Attraction in Georgia

An amazing place. A wonderful story and a great method to capture the Appalachian culture and history for future generations. I had heard about the Foxfire books ever since I was a kid. They ranked up there with the Farmer’s Almanac and other books that were resources of what should be common sense information before the internet came into being. Now I have a whole new respect for them. I stopped by because of the road signs as I was visiting the Black Rock Mountain visitor’s center and viewing area higher up the mountain from this site. All I can say is…Wow. What an amazing place. It was built from the proceeds of the famous Foxfire articles and books about rural Appalachian life and ways. There are over 21 sites on property and each one could have a review on them. Each of the buildings has an informational sign and history that makes them fascinating in their own right. There is a large gravel parking lot and a visitors center. The entire tour took me about an hour but you could spend a lot more time here learning a lot about all of it. The grounds were all clean and well kept and many, if not most, of the buildings were designed to be walked inside with more informational displays on the walls. The staff consisted of one person at the first building on the path which serves as the entrance and gift shop with bathrooms right behind it. I highly recommend this if you want to learn about the Appalachian history and way of life. I found it fascinating and hope you...

This is a must see place. It falls in the category of living history. Foxfire started in the early 70's as an English class project. Since then they have interviewed enough people to have 12 volumes of mountain living information published and still produce an online magazine. All of this is done by kids in high school. There is an entry fee.

All cabins have exhibits with information. It's a look but don't touch kinda place. In the central pavilion we listened to ladies playing music. We sat for a while and enjoyed the music.

We were able to observe a lady looming material for tea towels and another for felting animal figures. All beautiful. In another cabin a gentleman showed us how he made and played dulcimers. He does classes you can sign up for. There is a fee associated with the course. The best part is you leave with the dulcimer you produce.

Again this is a must see kinda place. Expect to spend a couple...

We spent the day at Black Rock Mountain state park and everything was great with the exception of our short experience at the Foxfire museum. Before we could even get out of the car an employee was literally yelling at us. Apparently we didn’t park the car perfectly enough to meet her lofty expectations. The parking lot is literally a gravel field with no lines or anything else and there were maybe three other cars there. I guess we didn’t park straight enough and she was terribly rude is demanding we park again. We didn’t mind moving the car 4 inches over to meet her strict requirements but there was no need to be insulting and condescending especially to my elderly parents. It’s shocking how some people treat others especially when their job revolves around the public. The park was great but wow this woman obviously was having a bad day and taking it out on visitors. We absolutely won’t be back to the...