Arie Carpenter

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Arie Carpenter (1885-1978){{cite web|last=Cabe Carpenter|first=Arie A|title=Death Record|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65917905/arie-a-carpenter|publisher=Find A Grave|accessdate=18 March 2014}} was a resident of Macon County, North Carolina, in the Southern Appalachian Mountains, United States. She was interviewed for the Foxfire Book published in 1972, through which she became known to thousands of readers.{{cite news|last=Thomas|first=Sonia|title=Homespun life sparkled with humor; Aunt Arie - A Foxfire Portrait|url=http://www.csmonitor.com/1983/0713/071303.html|accessdate=18 March 2014|newspaper=The Christian Science Monitor|date=July 13, 1983}} High school students interviewed her and reproduced her stories and skills of living in the Foxfire oral history-based books.{{cite news|last=Johnson|first=Donald|title=They Learned, and They Loved It|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1972/04/09/91325132.pdf|accessdate=18 March 2014|newspaper=The New York Times|date=19 April 1972}}

Carpenter was the inspiration for the character Annie Nations in the Foxfire play, a role performed on Broadway by Jessica Tandy, which also became a TV movie in 1987.[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093046/ Foxfire (1987 film)], starring Jessica Tandy, Hume Cronyn and John Denver