You were blessed!
It's true, a remnant remains.
As does documentation, for those who jump on the clue train early enough. Many .pdf's exist of earlier technologies - free to download - and the time to download them, and print them, is now...
Or, perhaps if you're not ready to print out a library, you could download them, put them on a dedicated laptop (doesn't have to be too modern), and assure you have enough solar power to run it and charge it. Store backups, of course - it should go without saying...
Best to everyone!
And another way to get that 'useful info' is to start buying, "The Foxfire Book" series. On the cover of 'book 1' of the series that I have...under the title, it says what's written in it...
""Hog dressing, log cabin building, mountain crafts and foods, planting by the signs, snake lore, hunting tales, faith healing, moonshining, and other affairs of plain living"".
Now the 'log cabin building' tells you how and shows 3 different ways to build an actual log cabin...the way they did it 'way back when'.
And 'planting by the signs' does not mean planting your crops by a road sign or some other such 'sign'. It means planting by the 'stars', like the big dipper, for instance. And it tells what plants to plant next to each other so bugs will leave them alone. Plant string beans between stalks of corn. The corn gives the beans something to 'climb' on. And the bugs that feed on corn can't be anywhere close to string beans while the bugs that feed on string beans are allergic to corn. See how it works?
And 'faith healing'...there's certain verses in the Bible that can be read to heal wounds in a big hurry, and they point them out. So you can try them for your self. Lol, you wanting to get pregnant? And do you want a boy baby? Very simple...just follow the 'instruction' in the Bible for when a woman is 'clean' enough to have 'relations' with her husband. It's about a 75% surety that the baby so conceived will be a boy baby.
In another book I've got, it tells exactly how to make your own flintlock rifle...all the way from smelting the iron ore to making the tool for putting the 'rifling' in the barrel.
And in the 3 books I've got their instructions for doing all those thing are very easy to understand, too.
Lol, I really enjoyed reading mine. And if you check way back in the 'Book' section of TB2K, you'll find I've posted about these books before.