There was a series of books called FOXFIRE a good while back. They were not actually survival books, just books telling folks how grandma and grandpa did things. I had about half a dozen of them but they got damaged when my basement got some water in it. Ya can find em online now (free) It covers everything from gardening to slaughtering animals and curing the meat.
Eliot Wigginton (born Brooks Eliot Wigginton) is an American oral historian, folklorist, writer and former educator. He was most widely known for developing the Foxfire Project, a writing project that led to a magazine and the series of best-selling Foxfire books, twelve volumes in all. These were based on articles by high school students from Rabun County, Georgia. In 1986 he was named "Georgia Teacher of the Year" and in 1989 he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.
...the author (Brooks Eliot Wigginton) apparently had a few things that he didn't learn from grandma and grandpa.
'Foxfire Book' Teacher Admits Child Molestation
ATLANTA, NOV. 12— Eliot Wigginton, the Georgia school teacher whose students produced "The Foxfire Book," an acclaimed series of journals about their surroundings and local culture, surrendered to the authorities today, one day after pleading guilty to child molestation.
http://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/13/us/foxfire-book-teacher-admits-child-molestation.html
...in any case, I liked his books. Dunno where he is now. Probably writing a book on surviving in jail.
Liberals are like a "Slinky". Totally useless, but somehow ya can't help but smile when you see one tumble down a flight of stairs!
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