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. She was interviewed for the Foxfire Book published in 1972, through which she became known to thousands of readers. High school students interviewed her and reproduced her stories and skills of living in the Foxfire oral history-based books. Carpenter was the inspiration for the character Annie Nations in the '' Foxfire'' play, a role performed on Broadway by

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, which also became a TV movie in 1987.''Foxfire'' (1987 film)
starring Jessica Tandy, Hume Cronyn and

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1885 births 1978 deaths Rabun County, Georgia {{US-bio-stub