Eliot Wigginton - Foxfire Continues

Foxfire Continues

Since then, the Foxfire project has continued under the auspices of the Foxfire Fund and its developed model of the "Foxfire approach" to experiential education. The students and Fund developed a museum in Mountain City, Georgia, consisting of several cabins. They also began archiving their materials and have been aided by the University of Georgia.

In 1998 the University of Georgia anthropology department started to work with the Foxfire project to archive 30 years worth of materials. The collection is held at the museum and includes "2,000 hours of interviews on audio tape, 30,000 black and white pictures and hundreds of hours of videotape." By improving how the material is archived and establishing a database, the university believes the materials can be made more easily available for scholars. The Foxfire educational philosophy is based on the values of "a learner-centered, community-based expression."