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For a likeness of Hillard Green, who was an octogenarian circa 1970, see this PDF file from Foxfire. He is pictured at the right of the page. In the last chapter of the original Foxfire Book, published by Doubleday in 1972, Hillard Green, who lived alone in the Appalachian Mountains of Georgia, is interviewed by students and makes some startlingly prescient statements:

P. 371, while putting up tomatoes:

"Everyone ought t'learn hot to do such as this. One a'these days, times might get back hard again, and then what will they do? Nobody not knowin' how to do nothin'. Might have t'live off th'land again, one day. We never had nothin' for the winter only what we put up. What we put up was what we had. Goin' t'be a lot of hungry people someday."

~~Hillard Green

More Hillard Green Quotes to Come, here at Elegant Survival