[PW] Looking for a set of books

[Mestas-Holm, Cecelia]

Hi,
Although this doesn't match the description exactly, could it be the
"Foxfire" set of books? They contained many how-to-do-it subjects like
killing and dressing game, blacksmithing, tool-making etc. 

FWIW,
Cecelia


Cecelia Mestas-Holm, M.S.L.I.S
Audiovisual and Circulation Librarian
Riverside Public Library
3581 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside CA 92501
cmestas at riversideca.gov
Fax: 951.788.1528




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Jennifer Gregory
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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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