Hi fellow permies, I just got off the phone with one of the guys at the museum that part of the organization that puts out the Foxfire books. You might want to check out www.foxfire.org. I have been told that all of the books have been reprinted and I have been assured that the content has remained the same. Only the covers have changed. So if you want the old ones as collector's items, that's one thing, but apparently they are in print and available for about $16 or so. That can be a bit steep for some of us, I know, but those who can buy a new reprint from the Foxfire crowd (they are a non-profit, I'm guessing a 501c3) and help to support the preservation of old self-sufficiency knowledge.
Thomas J. Elpel is another good source for useful little tidbits of information. I can't remember his site but if you google his name you'll have many valid choices. He has a website for each of his interests, and they are many. He shares much of what he has learned freely but also has books he has written. There are lots of things that get down to the nitty-gritty 'how-to' that you can try and if they work..Cool. And if they don't...toss 'em out. -----Original Message----- >From: Joy Beeson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Sep 5, 2006 7:49 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: Foxfire series > > > > >Foxfire, so I hear, was a compendium of first-hand >information and so can't get out of date -- but it can get >out of print. And thirty years moves it from "second hand" >to "collector's item". > >When I searched on the keyword "Foxfire" on >http://www.abebooks.com/ I got 2986 results, but the first >page was all fiction. Searching on "weaving" within the >results got 210 hits, and the first 30 were _Foxfire 2: >Ghost Stories, Spring Wild Plant Foods, Spinning and >Weaving, Midwifing, Burial Customs, Corn Shuckin's, Wagon >Making and More Affairs of Plain Living (ISBN: 0385022670) >Wigginton, Eliot, ed._. Prices on this page ranged from >US$1.00 to $4.00; shipping ranged from $3.50 to $4.95. As >the USD prices suggest, all books on the first page are in >the United States -- southern states seemed to predominate, >but I noticed one bookshop in Brooklyn. To stop mail temporarily mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: set nomail To restore send: set mail
