Summer is here and so is Little/Middle Folk School. While the campus is taken over by kick ball, card games, picnics, and the fire truck that stopped by on Tuesday to spray the kids off – there is still one adult class happening, and that’s Dance Caller’s Week. You can sign up as a dancer [...]
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We are happy to report that our recent Gala and Benefit Auction on June 12 raised $15,758, with these proceeds going towards the Folk School’s programs. This year we held a coinciding online Ebay auction to honor Doug Barnes, our late Resident Artist in woodturning. The Doug Barnes Memorial Fund Ebay Auction, held June 8-17, [...]
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The week of May 30 was an exciting one for 10 beginning dulcimer players. Although several students had a music background, there were a number of others who couldn’t read music, and felt they “weren’t musical.” Under teacher Anne Lough and myself as the assistant, students went from being terrified of the 60 plus strings [...]
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When the class introduced themselves on Sunday evening, they gave different reasons for taking the class–”I’m tired of making hockey pucks”, “I make one kind of bread and I want to learn to make more”, even “I’m interested in making bread for sale”. For such a simple food, there are a lot of details that [...]
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It’s raining again, and if this were boy-scout camp, there’d be a lot of soggy tents, unroasted marshmallows, and unhappy campers. But here at the John C. Campbell Folk School, each shower puts another bud on the lilies and another apple on the bough over at Orchard House, which will make for fine cider come [...]
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