![]() Additional books were published, and with profits from magazine and book sales, the students created a not-for-profit educational and literary organization and a museum. In 1977, the Foxfire project moved from the Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School to the newly built and consolidated public Rabun County High School. The magazine was named for foxfire, a term for a naturally occurring bioluminescence in fungi in the forests of North Georgia. When the articles were collected and published in book form in 1972, it became a bestseller nationally and gained attention for the Foxfire project. They captured oral history, craft traditions, and other material about the culture. An example of experiential education, the magazine had articles based on the students' interviews with local people about aspects and practices in Appalachian culture. At the time Foxfire began, Rabun Gap Nacoochee School was also operating as a public secondary education school for students who were residents of northern Rabun County, Georgia. ![]() Student-written magazine and book series Foxfire Founderįoxfire magazine began in 1966, written and published as a quarterly American magazine by students at Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School, a private secondary education school located in the U.S.
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