Twice a year, hoards of people descend on sleepy little Brasstown. On New Year’s Eve, the attraction is the Possum Drop at Clay’s Corner. In early October, it’s the Folk School’s Fall Festival. This annual celebration of local craftspeople, musicians, and dancers draws roughly 14,000 people, and we hope you’ll be one of them this [...]
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This month, while you’re waiting in the checkout line at your grocery store, flipping through magazines, you just might come across the Folk School. The October issue of Whole Living, in the “Smart Travel: Teaching Trips” article on page 24, recommends the Folk School as a destination to “channel your inner blacksmith, woodcarver, or weaver” [...]
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Appalachian blogger and neighbor, Tipper has posted an exciting opportunity to win 4 tickets to this year’s festival on her blog Blind Pig & the Acorn. To find out how to win, visit her colorful blog about Appalachian life and read her reminiscence of attending Fall Festival as a young’un, and now, as a mother [...]
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The campus was decorated with Scottish flags last week during Scottish Heritage Week. With the blacksmiths learning ironworking techniques of ancient Scotland, the woodcarvers chiseling Celtic motifs, the cooks boiling broths on the open hearth and making hagis and bannocks – it’s a wonder we didn’t all start talking with Scottish accents. We did have [...]
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