Bathroom reading?

Lots of people have reading material in their bathrooms. When my husband was growing up, they had Reader's Digest. Pretty typical. I remember several books over the years (Raising Rabbits the Modern Way), but one impacted me more than the others.
Actually, its a series of books. The Foxfire books.

The Foxfire books are a compilation of stories, skills and interviews conducted by high school students during the 1960's in rural Appalachia. It began as a classroom project, but developed into a decades long anthropological case study.
The students in Eliot Wigginton's English class gained first hand knowledge of their own local culture through hands-on interviews and lessons with the elders of their community. They learned self-sufficiency skills such as butchering, building, farming, sewing and distilling, then wrote about their experiences. Those written articles became a series of nine (at least) books.
I loved reading and learning about these rural skills as a child. (Still do!) But, I learned more than practical skills from these books. For me the real power lies in the experiences of the young people. A whole generation of young Appalachians were taught traditional skills from their elders, a very uncommon occurrence these days.
Even less common, they (and their teacher) had the foresight to see the priceless nature of those teachings. I am inspired by the reverence for the mundane that that foresight requires and encouraged as I seek the meaningful lessons in my everyday life. Every person and every place, no matter how old, poor or downtrodden, holds a wealth of knowledge that will be lost forever if we lack the patience and vision to discover it.
http://www.foxfire.org/