The foxfire book
by Eliot Wigginton · first published 1972
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Interviews and essays describe the way of life and crafts of pioneer America still surviving in the Appalachian region.
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…5, a drill press. Book 6, precision tools so you can do accurate work. It's a lot of work, but people have successfully followed those directions and made machine tools. Further back, there are the Foxfire books, from 1962 (http://www.amazon.com/The-Foxfire-Book-Dressing-Moonshining/...). This was the bible of the hippie "back to the land" movement. A number of communes were set up using those books.
on “On a farm in Missouri, a radical experiment in self-sufficiency (2013)” ↗Sounds like someone needs to do a _Foxfire_ [1] series around Chemistry and Physics departments. [1] http://www.foxfire.org/thefoxfirebooks.aspx "With nearly 9 million copies in print, The Foxfire Book and its eleven companion volumes stand memorial to the people and the vanishing culture of the Southern Appalachian Mountains, brought to life for readers through the words of those who were born, lived…
on “Caltech glassblower's retirement has scientists sighing” ↗