
Arie Carpenter on her front porch in Rabun County, Georgia, with a handmade basket.
All photos courtesy Foxfire

Mrs. Andy Webb, who was born near Highlands, North Carolina, appeared briefly in the film “Deliverance.”
Arts & Culture
In 1966, a young high school teacher in Rabun County, Georgia, scrapped the standard English curriculum and encouraged his students to get outside the classroom to document the traditions and accumulated wisdom of their own mountain communities. The students sat down with their relatives and elders, recording interviews about everything from making soap to brewing moonshine to cooking hominy, and compiled their work into a magazine called Foxfire. It was the start of what would become a best-selling book series spanning twelve volumes and a vast archive of Southern Appalachian life and culture.
Fifty years later, the work continues. Foxfire is now a nonprofit organization with a museum and heritage center in Mountain City, Georgia. And in honor of its fiftieth birthday, a book, The Foxfire Book of Simple Living: Celebrating Fifty Years of Listenin’, Laughin’, and Learnin’, collects both five decades of mountain know-how as well as modern interviews that speak to the continued relevance of Appalachian arts, crafts, and customs. “What we discovered was that there are still people, both old-timers and new-timers, who believe in close-knit families, in kindness to their neighbors, and who take tremendous satisfaction in how they construct meaning from their corner of the world,” editor Kaye Carver Collins writes in the book’s introduction. “This place, while changing, is still our touchstone in this often senseless world—a tie that cannot, and will not, be broken.”
Arts & Culture
Stunning describes both the victory by 80-to-1 long shot Rich Strike in the 148th Kentucky Derby and the stylish attire on display at Churchill Downs for the Derby and Kentucky Oaks. Photographer Nerissa Sparkman captured all the fantastic looks.
Arts & Culture
Pictures by photographer Robby Klein from locales in Louisiana and Alabama
Arts
On March 4 and 5, bid on Frank S. Finney bird miniatures, an early swimming brant decoy, and Ogden M. Pleissner watercolors
Food & Drink
Oyster experts from around the South weigh in on their favorite oysters, by state
Food & Drink
Even Kelly Fields whips up a box of Jiffy every once in a while. Here’s how she makes the store-bought stuff her own
Travel
Remote Southern retreats to help you unwind and unplug