[PW] Looking for a set of books

[Kay Lancaster]

> "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.

Skinny books, more like large pamphlets?  Could it be the titles 
from Garden Way, now the Storey Bulletin series? 
http://www.storey.com/bulletins/bulletin.php/y/14/p/0

I think the earlier group went under HAVE-MORE Plan with various 
titles.  
http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=HAVE-MORE+plan&Search_Code=TALL&PID=24156&SEQ=20080508120841&CNT=25&HIST=1

Kay