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LRod wrote:
| On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 21:53:05 -0500, "Morris Dovey"
| wrote:

| Appalachia, sort of. The project was done in a school in Rabun Gap,
| GA, as I recall. That's in the NE part of the state. I guess that's
| the Appalachin chain, but I think it's also the southern end of the
| Blue Ridge in that area. The Chattooga River runs through there,
| which is where "Deliverance" was filmed.

Thanks. I wasn't sure where it was - Rabun Gap rings a bell, though. I
remember being amazed that they'd been produced by kids. I only had
the first three volumes - but felt that I learned a lot from them.

| The sad part of the Foxfire books story is that the teacher who led
| the project was eventually charged with some variation of child
| molesting, was discharged, and did some time.

That _is_ sad.

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