If ever there were a person who best epitomized the culture and character of the North Georgia mountains, it might be Barbara Taylor Woodall, who lives on Kelly’s Creek in Rabun County.She is an example of what the Foxfire method of education in Appalachia was meant to do. Barbara was in the eighth grade at Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School counting the days till she would turn 16 and drop out like many before her. But Eliot Wigginton’s Foxfire program hooked her; she stayed in school, graduated, owned a successful business and now is an author who defends the mountains and the people who love living there.Foxfire, which continues to flourish today, sent Barbara and her friends out among the hills to write about the people and their ways.
Rabun native tries to hang onto heritage
