Sorry, I just realized you stated they were NOT the Firefox
books.
Viccy
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[mailto:web4lib-bounceswebjunction.org] On Behalf Of Victoria
Kemp
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 11:16 AM
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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!
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On Behalf Of
Jennifer Gregory
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 8:04 AM
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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
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