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Foxfire Books
CastIron:
Great Books Everything from Hog killing to chair caining they were the ORIGINAL LIFE IS GOOD THREADS ;D ;D oh yea and lot of cast iron pots :) :)
cowboy:
Andrea: It's amazing that you should run across these. I poured through them in my boyhood years, I tried a few of the skills they wrote about but didn't accomplish much. I was fifteen then, I'll be forty four this year. Lot's of useful stuff in there ;).
The Singing Bowyer:
My mother gave me her original copies of the first 6. They are great!
Hillbilly:
I have the first six, and they're the 100% absolute real deal. I grew up and still live in the area covered in the books and my grandpa was from the same community where they were produced. I knew several people in them personally, and my dad knew many more of them. Yes, I'd say I've tried some of the techniques-I grew up exactly like those books describe and still do a lot of that stuff. All the stuff in the Foxfire books was just everyday life at the time. All the folks in my grandparents generation were just like the old guys and gals in those books. When I was a kid, that's where you could always find me-hanging out with the old codgers listening and watching.
mullet:
There is another bok that goes hand in hand with the Foxfire books and it's called, The Salt Book. It's basicly the same thing but has to do with life and skills in New England.
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