"He was also feeling great concern that his actions have harmed the Foxfire program and that people identify him so closely with the work of Foxfire that they won't be able to separate the two."īill Parrish, executive director of the Foxfire Fund, said the organization was "shocked and profoundly saddened by this unexpected development" and added that the guilty plea "obviously requires his total separation" from the organization. "Eliot Wigginton came to the realization that the right thing to do was to quit denying what he had done and admit his guilt," the lawyer, Bruce Maloy, said. Wigginton's admission of guilt, his lawyer said, was also a deeply personal coming to grips with his problems and a result of his growing concern about the effect of the accusations and any protracted trial on the nonprofit Foxfire Fund, a $1.2 million-a-year program that promotes his ideas. It sent the students out to interview their neighbors and examine their communities and eventually grew to an enterprise that sold more than four million books worldwide, inspired a Broadway play and a created a network of more than 1,200 teachers in about a dozen states who actively promote the idea of the journals as learning tools. Wigginton's high school English class at Rabun County High School in the late 1960's. Named for a phosphorescent lichen common to the mountainous north Georgia area, Foxfire began as a student-produced journal in Mr. Wigginton appeared in a nearly empty courtroom in Clayton, Ga., 100 miles north of here, and entered a guilty plea to a single count of molestation.
Wigginton molested them as children from 1969 to 1982. Since the indictment, however, local prosecutors have made known their intention to produce more than 20 people to testify that Mr. 15 but had vigorously maintained his innocence until now. Wigginton, 49 years old, was indicted on Sept. Eliot Wigginton, the Georgia school teacher whose students produced "The Foxfire Book," an acclaimed series of journals about their surroundings and local culture, surrendered to the authorities today, one day after pleading guilty to child molestation.
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