Box 3-B

A mountaineer who "had rather make moonshine than go on welfare" relates his story. He tells of being sent up four times for making liquor, while IRS agents relate tales of tracking down still and making arrest.

In 1967, Eliot Wigginton and his Rabun Gap, Georgia high school class set out to record the lore, legends, and crafts of their Appalachian folk heritage. Beginning as an effort to help young people learn, it grew into the magazine Foxfire and two major best-sellers and became one of the most successful educational experiments in America.