Who the heck is Eliot Wigginton?

[rudy parnell]

Eliot Wigginton is the english teacher from the Appalachian Mountains of north Georgia that started Foxfire magazine along with his ninth- and tenth- grade classes in 1966. Foxfire Book #5 is dedicated to Iron Making and Blacksmithing, Gunmaking, and Bear Hunting. There are 200 odd pages concerning black powder, barrel making, siler locks, flintlock rifles, modern gunsmiths, turkey shoots, and the NMLRA. You can probably pick up a copy at your local library or bookstore. The book is sure to delight everyone interested in muzzleloading. You may also pick up some appreciation for a "culture of plain living" that seems to have escaped us. The international standard book number is 5060 9100 003 325 5.

 

[walruskid1]

good book, covers everything about anything. wish some of the old time guns-smiths where still alive. great stories.

 

Some of the best builders that ever lived are alive today.

Some of the builders in that book are alive today.

What does it take to be an old time builder? Do you have to be old or dead?

Foxfire 5 was good, but it was just the beginning for men like Chambers and House. Their methods and expertise have evolved through the years and some of the innovations they developed have boosted our sport beyond anything the Foxfire books contemplated.

The other books in the series were just as valuable having information on lost crafts and mythology.

It's a pitty Eliot did not survive the minefield of a teaching career. He was doing good work.