JohninK, that's a lot of great info, but unfortunately I think you're on entirely the wrong track. I'm pretty sure this was (is?) a private organization, and not related to the FDA/state/university co-op extension services. It's entire focus is recreation. It's surprising that it's under the web radar, but I think it might even still exist. (Maybe there's so much other "co-op" stuff on the web that any results are swamped.) I recall my mother talking about a friend who used to go to their annual conferences just a few years ago.

Those little booklets are great. Our local used bookstore that is one of my sources of good old music stuff recently had what seemed to be someone's estate collection of folk music stuff (I spent a bit and could easily have spent a lot more!), including a shoebox full of the little songbooks.

I'll ask Mom. :-)

~ Becky in Tucson