Editing Rabun County, Georgia (section)

==In popular culture==
* Rabun County is the home of the magazine ''[[Foxfire (magazine)|Foxfire]]''. The publication was launched in 1966, when Eliot Wigginton and his students in an English class at [[Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School]] initiated a project to engage students in writing.<ref name="New GA">{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2424&hl=y |title=Foxfire |access-date=January 23, 2010 |last=Mendonca |first=Adrienn |date=September 16, 2005 |encyclopedia=New Georgia Encyclopedia |publisher=University of Georgia Press |archive-date=October 21, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021085123/http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2424&hl=y |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name='RGNS'>{{cite web |url=http://www.rabungap.org/page.cfm?p=10 |title=History of RGNS |access-date=January 23, 2010 |publisher=RGNS |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090217000957/http://www.rabungap.org/page.cfm?p=10 |archive-date=February 17, 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The class decided to publish a magazine over the course of the semester. Its articles were the product of the students' interviewing their relatives and local citizens about how lifestyles had changed over the course of their lives and dealt with traditions in the rural area. The magazine covers topics of the lifestyle, culture, crafts, and skills of people in southern Appalachia.
* Rabun was the primary shooting location for the 1972 film ''[[Deliverance#Production|Deliverance]]'' and used many locals as extras, including [[Billy Redden]]. While the setting for the movie is suggested as in the north Georgia mountains, Rabun is not specifically mentioned in the film.
* ''The Deliverance of Rabun County'' is a [[2012]] documentary that explored the effects of ''[[Deliverance#Production|Deliverance]]'' on the county population. <ref name="welles">[http://www.marketplace.org/topics/life/40-years-later-deliverance-causes-mixed-feelings-georgia Cory Welles, "40 years later, 'Deliverance' causes mixed feelings in Georgia"], Marketplace, August 22, 2012, accessed August 27, 2014</ref>
* Rabun County is the setting for the play ''[[Foxfire (play)|Foxfire]]'', based on books of the same name compiled from, or beyond the scope of, stories in the similarly named magazine. The play had its Broadway premiere in 1982 starring [[Jessica Tandy]] and her husband [[Hume Cronyn]]. The play was later made into a Hallmark TV movie, starring Tandy, Cronyn, and [[John Denver]]. In both the play and the movie, there are several references to Rabun County and the surrounding area.
* [[Larry Burkett]]'s 1991 fantasy novel ''The Illuminati'' (1991) is set partly in Rabun County. It and the county seat of Clayton become the refuge of the book's protagonists after forces take control over the American economy; Clayton is safe due to the antiquated analog communications gear and general isolation underlying stereotypes of the area.
* [[Koo-Koo the Bird Girl|Minnie Woolsey]] who appeared in [[Freaks (1932 film)]] was born in Rabun County in 1880.