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Sound Reasoning

How the Foxfire Boys Emerged and Became a Community Institution

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As the story goes, after the success of the Foxfire Books, Eliot Wigginton (Wig) and the staff had ideas of moving beyond recorded interviews and text with new supplementary endeavors to reach other kids not yet involved in the Foxfire project. A video project had been initiated and the next idea was to produce musical recordings modeling the Foxfire Magazine and to build a business that would support a music program.

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  • Gladwell, M. (2008). Outliers: The story of success (1st ed.). New York, NY: Little, Brown and Co.

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Reynolds, G. (2016). Sound Reasoning. In: Smith, H., McDermott, J.C. (eds) The Foxfire Approach. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-564-7_3

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