Elliot Wigginton

Elliot Wigginton is the editor of the Foxfire series and one of the primary individuals in the Mountain City project. Elliot's importance in the novel is not so much that of an interviewer or an interviewee, but rather, as the reason the book and its content exists at all. Elliot and his team dreamed of teaching high school students the ways of simple life, and it is through this dream that the Foxfire books, including this one, were born. It was Elliot's determination to show youths there was a different way of life that resulted in the collections of such vital and important pieces of information as are contained within Foxfire. In addition, it is Elliot's opening comments about small town life that introduce the characters of the novel, who are all of a small town, and have the values of a small, yet independent, community.

Anna Tutt