[Web4lib] RE: Looking for a set of books

[Victoria Kemp]

Would these be the Foxfire books? Here's what Amazon says:  

In the late 1960s, Eliot Wigginton and his students created the magazine
Foxfire in an effort to record and preserve the traditional folk culture
of the Southern Appalachians. This is the original book compilation of
Foxfire material which introduces Aunt Arie and her contemporaries and
includes log cabin building, hog dressing, snake lore, mountain crafts
and food, and "other affairs of plain living."      

The books were compendiums of magazine articles.      

HTH   

Viccy Kemp  

The opinions are my own; the library wouldn't want 'em!

 

 

-----Original Message-----

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[mailto:project-wombat-fm-bounces at lists.project-wombat.org] On Behalf Of
Jennifer Gregory

Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 8:04 AM

To: list at project-wombat.org

Subject: [PW] Looking for a set of books

 

Hello!

 

I've gotten another one of those "I-don't-know-the-title-or-the-author"
questions.  Here's what the patron had to say:

 

"I am looking for a set of books from the sixties that tell you how to
do everything. Like from making a forge to making medicines. It was a
set of books or series.  They are not the firefox series.  I just found
out about it from TV.  I remember them being done about the time of the
bay of pigs, they were done out of the fear that the world would end due
to nuclear war.....more like a how to series.  The idea of them is to
keep us out of the dark ages.

 

"I have asked older people a professor in a college, and she check the
library there, I remember seeing them at one of my customers houses
years ago.  she checked with the library at WVU bluefeild WV."

 

The patron believes that the title(s) did *not* include the words "how
to."

 

So, any ideas?

 

Thanks much!

Jennifer

 

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 Jennifer Gregory

 Virtual Services Librarian

 Boone County Public Library

 Main Branch

 1786 Burlington Pike

 Burlington, KY 41005

 (859) 292-3386

 Fax: (859) 689-0435

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Victoria C. Kemp

Technical Services Manager

Flower Mound Public Library

972.874.6154