Voyageur Press recently sent me a copy of their newest book Old-Time Country Wisdom & Lore: 1000s of Traditional Skills for Simple Living by Jerry Mack Johnson to review. This book contains a wealth of information from folklore about topics like water witching, weather, country remedies and herbal cures, bird migrations and animal lore, firewood […]
Book Review: Making the Best of Basics
I recently got a copy of James Talmage Stevens’ bestselling book Making the Best of Basics: Family Preparedness Handbook–a fairly thorough guide to basic preparedness. For a little background, let me tell you this–Mr. Stevens has been publishing this book since shortly after I was born. The guy has been around preparedness a little bit. […]
