The Foxfire Book of Simple Living by Foxfire Fund Inc

The Foxfire Book of Simple Living by Foxfire Fund Inc

Author:Foxfire Fund, Inc.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2016-08-23T04:00:00+00:00


PLATE 155 Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn with Foxfire students

“Another great thing we did on that trip was to go to a school and give speeches. We also signed autographs at a bookstore. It was great to have people make you feel like you were somebody. The people really liked Foxfire, too. I loved every bit of it.

“There was a world of difference between the play and the Hallmark movie. I liked the movie, but I loved the play.”

—Donna Bradshaw Speed

“Donna Bradshaw and I went to the Guthrie Theater. I’ve still got a blue T-shirt with ‘The Guthrie’ on it.

“I remember when they were doing the play and they took out the hog’s head. Everybody in the audience started dying laughing.

“Donna and I were crying at one point. They made it that realistic. It was at the end when Annie knew she was going to live with her son and was going to sell the farm. At that time, everybody was having bitter feelings about real-estate people down in Rabun.

“I’ve still got pictures of where we were in the dressing room with Jessica and Hume. Jessica and Hume were real nice. We went out to supper that night, and you could tell that they were a close couple. It tickled you to sit and eat with them. They were equals, and they respected each other because they had been together a long time. One of them wasn’t more powerful than the other one, and they were both real polite. I remember Hume smoked a pipe. You know, you wonder if some actors are putting on a front. Jessica and Hume weren’t.”

—Kim Hamilton McKay

“When they were going to do a production of the play at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, the producers came up and toured the land and picked out artifacts, like a wagon, that they wanted to use in the set. I remember a bunch of students loaded the things in a truck and got them ready to take down there. Then a group of us went to see the Atlanta production. It was real neat, with all the stage props borrowed from Foxfire.

“It was a very well-written play. Rural land is so precious these days and there isn’t much of it left. I resent the developers that come in. I understand that there is an increased need for housing—houses on the lake, apartments, and condos. But there’s so few people left who own the original land that they were born on, and that’s something special that you should preserve.

“Every big town and every little town has its own personality. You have to maintain the individual heritage of every town. It’s like Rabun County. There is only one Mountain City and one Clayton.

“You can tear down the condominiums, but you’ve already ruined the land, and the people that lived there have already moved on and died. Often the land is irreplaceable. A lot of people don’t think about that. Change is good, but sometimes I don’t feel like the price is worth it.



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