On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:46:16 -0400, with neither quill nor qualm, "Ed
Huntress" quickly quoth:


"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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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

Ah, yeah, the Foxfire books are good. I've always enjoyed reading them.

If you have a library nearby that keeps old books, look for _Two Little
Savages_ by Ernest Thompson Seton (1911). It was my dad's favorite when he

Will do, if it ever reopens. We lost 'em last May.


was a boy and it may have been the most popular book for boys before 1925 or
so. I loved it when I was a boy, too. It contains a wealth of old woodlore,
including making "Indian style" leather by tanning with mashed, cooked
brains and liver...oh, well, you'd have to read it for yourself.

Gee, I'm gettin hungry just thinking about it, Ed. bseg

_The American Boy's Handy Book_ looks like another good 'un, decanted
back in 1882.

P.S: I prefer my leather store-boughten, TYVM.

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