On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:24:39 -0400, with neither quill nor qualm, "Ed
Huntress" quickly quoth:

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We're also seeing changes in our popular culture. One example is the
best-selling status of The Dangerous Book for Boys, by the brothers
Conn and Hal Iggulden. It hearkens back to the Boy Scout manuals and *
other boys' books of the early 20th century, with instructions on how
to build go-karts, bows and arrows, rafts and more. The book's success
tells me people are interested in regaining lost ground. (It works,
too: I gave my 8-year-old nephew a copy, and it got him away from the
Xbox and into the outdoors.)

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I'll believe it when I see something like the article I clipped from _Boy's
Life_, around 1958 or so, about how to make a 'coon-skin cap. It even
contained patterns for cutting up the 'coon.

Those were the days...

I've found Eliot Wigginton's Appalachian adventures with his students
(the Foxfire book series) great, too. http://tinyurl.com/3cbs8w

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If you turn the United States on its side,
everything loose will fall to California.
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