The 187.7-carat Foxfire diamond, the largest gem-quality diamond ever to be discovered in North America, displays unusually bright fluorescence when exposed to ultraviolet light. It continues to emit ...

The 1,500-mile Appalachian Mountain range stretches so far that those on the northern and southern sides can't agree on what to call it: Appa-LAY-chia or Appa-LATCH-ia. The outside perspective on the ...

In 2015, the 187.63 carat Foxfire diamond was mined about 130 miles north of the Arctic Circle in Canada's Northwest Territories. Donny Bajohr The Foxfire Diamond poses next to kimberlite from the ...

It’s a fall afternoon, and Jessica Phillips is sitting in a log cabin and discussing Foxfire, the cultural appreciation nonprofit that for 50 years has transcribed and recorded the oral histories of ...

ASHLAND On Monday Foxfire Music and Arts Festival was officially canceled. The announcement was made via a release sent Monday. The festival was scheduled to start on Friday. The event was to be held ...

(INGLES OPEN ROAD) — Welcome to the Foxfire Museum. Located in the far northeast corner of Georgia tucked into the Blue Ridge Mountains, this is a place dedicated to telling the story of the settlers ...

In 1966, an English class at a small Georgia prep school called Rabun Gap-Nacoochee started interviewing locals in the surrounding Appalachian region and collecting their oral histories in a magazine ...

Margaret Norton, who is prominently featured in the first Foxfire book, churns butter as she is being interviewed by a student in 1967. The original Foxfire book series consists of 12 volumes, but ...