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2008-05-08 11:15:44 |
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-----
From: project-wombat-fm-bounces lists.project-wombat.org
[mailto:project-wombat-fm-bounceslists.project-wombat.org]
On Behalf Of
Jennifer Gregory
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 8:04 AM
To: listproject-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
=========================
Jennifer Gregory
Virtual Services Librarian
Boone County Public Library
Main Branch
1786 Burlington Pike
Burlington, KY 41005
(859) 292-3386
Fax: (859) 689-0435
=========================
Victoria C. Kemp
Technical Services Manager
Flower Mound Public Library
972.874.6154
_______________________________________________
Web4lib mailing list
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| RE: RE: Looking for a set of books |
 
United States |
2008-05-08 11:31:37 |
We have a few of the Firefox books, it certainly sounds
like them -
Andrea
Andrea Berstler - Director
The Village Library of Morgantown
PO Box 797, 207 N Walnut St
Morgantown, PA
www.villagelibrary.org
610-286-1022
Preserving the Past . . . Preparing for the Future . . .
Life will always throw you curves, just keep fouling them
off... the right
pitch will come, but when it does, be prepared to run the
bases. ~Rick
Maksian
-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounceswebjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib-bounceswebjunction.org] On Behalf Of Victoria
Kemp
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 12:16 PM
To: web4libwebjunction.org
Subject: [Web4lib] RE: Looking for a set of books
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-----
From: project-wombat-fm-bounceslists.project-wombat.org
[mailto:project-wombat-fm-bounceslists.project-wombat.org]
On Behalf Of
Jennifer Gregory
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 8:04 AM
To: listproject-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
=========================
Jennifer Gregory
Virtual Services Librarian
Boone County Public Library
Main Branch
1786 Burlington Pike
Burlington, KY 41005
(859) 292-3386
Fax: (859) 689-0435
=========================
Victoria C. Kemp
Technical Services Manager
Flower Mound Public Library
972.874.6154
_______________________________________________
Web4lib mailing list
Web4libwebjunction.org
http://lists.we
bjunction.org/web4lib/
_______________________________________________
Web4lib mailing list
Web4libwebjunction.org
http://lists.we
bjunction.org/web4lib/
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| RE: RE: Looking for a set of books |
United States |
2008-05-08 11:44:21 |
How about the Whole Earth Catalog?
http
://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_Earth_Catalog
That's not even completely off topic given that Steve Jobs
cited it as a precursor to Google - I guess that would make
Google a mashup of Stewart Brand and Eugene Garfield.
- Jim Campbell
Digital Access Librarian | Librarian for German
University of Virginia Library | Charlottesville, VA
22904-4112
513 Alderman | campbellvirginia.edu |
434-924-4985
-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounceswebjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib-bounceswebjunction.org] On Behalf Of Andrea
Berstler - Director
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 12:32 PM
To: web4libwebjunction.org
Subject: RE: [Web4lib] RE: Looking for a set of books
We have a few of the Firefox books, it certainly sounds
like them -
Andrea
Andrea Berstler - Director
The Village Library of Morgantown
PO Box 797, 207 N Walnut St
Morgantown, PA
www.villagelibrary.org
610-286-1022
Preserving the Past . . . Preparing for the Future . . .
Life will always throw you curves, just keep fouling them
off... the right
pitch will come, but when it does, be prepared to run the
bases. ~Rick
Maksian
-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounceswebjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib-bounceswebjunction.org] On Behalf Of Victoria
Kemp
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 12:16 PM
To: web4libwebjunction.org
Subject: [Web4lib] RE: Looking for a set of books
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-----
From: project-wombat-fm-bounceslists.project-wombat.org
[mailto:project-wombat-fm-bounceslists.project-wombat.org]
On Behalf Of
Jennifer Gregory
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 8:04 AM
To: listproject-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
=========================
Jennifer Gregory
Virtual Services Librarian
Boone County Public Library
Main Branch
1786 Burlington Pike
Burlington, KY 41005
(859) 292-3386
Fax: (859) 689-0435
=========================
Victoria C. Kemp
Technical Services Manager
Flower Mound Public Library
972.874.6154
_______________________________________________
Web4lib mailing list
Web4libwebjunction.org
http://lists.we
bjunction.org/web4lib/
_______________________________________________
Web4lib mailing list
Web4libwebjunction.org
http://lists.we
bjunction.org/web4lib/
_______________________________________________
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http://lists.we
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