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Softbound, 320 pages, 6” x 9”.  This new volume—Foxfire 11—celebrates the rituals and recipes of the Appalachian homeplace, including a one-hundred page section on herbal remedies, and segments about planting and growing a garden, preserving and pickling, smoking and salting, honey making, beekeeping, and fishing, as well as hundreds of the kind of spirited firsthand narrative accounts from Appalachian community members that exemplify the Foxfire style.  Much more than “how-to” books, the Foxfire series is a publishing phenomenon and a way of life, teaching creative self-sufficiency, the art of natural remedies, home crafts, and other country folkways, fascinating to everyone interested in rediscovering the virtues of simple life.

Edited by Kaye Carver Collins, Angie Cheek and the Foxfire students. Softbound, 560 pages, 6" x 9". For nearly forth years, Foxfire books have brought the philosophy of simple living to hundreds of thousands of readers, teaching creative self-sufficiency, the art of natural remedies, and home crafts and preserving the stories and customs of Appalachia. This latest volume includes square dancing, Cherokee traditions, summer camps, World War veterans, personalities and much more.

by Mark Baker. Softbound, 300+ pages, 8-1/2" x 11". The first ten years of the author's column in Muzzleloader Magazine has now been reprinted in book form. Over 300 pages of treks, scouts, hunts and how-to. Mark shares his knowledge and insight gained from wilderness experiences, extensive research and from his partners and mentors along the way. From flintlocks and moccasins to shooting bags and knapsacks, explore the way of life of the Colonial woodsman. Learn about clothing, accoutrements, food and skills from an era that helped forge the American spirit and a new nation.

by Mark Baker. Softbound, 320 pages, 8-1/2" x 11". Continue the journey towards becoming an 18th century woodsman with Mark Baker's next ten years of articles. A never-ending quest to discover the skills, lifestyle and mindset of those early frontiersmen. In these articles, Mark hones his skills and digs deeper into a way of life lost to so many.

by Robert J. Moore, Jr. and Michael Haynes. Hardbound, 288 pages, 10-1/2" x 10". Crossing the continent in 1803, Lewis & Clark started out in U.S. Army uniforms, which gradually had to be replaced with simple leather garments. For parts of those uniforms, only a single drawing, pattern, or example survives. The authors have researched archives and museums to locate and verify what the men wore. Also included are Indian styles the men adopted, and the wardrobes of the Creole interpreters and the French boatmen. Weapons and accessories round out this complete record of what the expedition wore or carried. A great reference for artists, living history buffs, museums, and military historians.

by Eric Sloane. Hardboundm 128 pages, 4-1/2" x 7". This hardcover collection offers cozy, homespun advise that recalls a kinder, less hectic time. Culled from early American almanacs and diaries, hundreds of brief reflections cover proper behavior as well as tips on carpentry, housework, weather, and more. Features dozens of Sloane's infamous drawings.