Everybody knows, that for the future, The Folk School must have an Endowment. We know the good the Folk School does. We want it to continue for generations to come. We want it to be strong enough to ride out downturns and emerge true and intact. We want the School to be available to folks, [...]
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It was about 1980. I got a call from Esther Hyatt, the Director of the Folk School. “Would you play the guitar for a dance class?” Would I? Yep, I’d play the guitar for about anything, and it was even better if I got paid. I showed up on a foggy June morning at the [...]
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November 2012 Dear Friends, Brasstown! Hail to thy verdant hills and dales, hail to thy possums and their tales. Brasstown has always had magic about it. It was one of the places pretty near my home in Murphy (7 miles) where I always said I was a-goin’ to someday, whenever I could drive. When I [...]
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To celebrate the life of David Rakoff, The John C. Campbell Folk School has established a fund that will award the first David Rakoff Scholarship in 2013. This Scholarship fund will provide tuition and board for a week-long class. David was a student, a dear friend of the Folk School and a member of its Board of [...]
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September 2012 Dear Friends You never know where you will end up, when the Folk School unleashes your creativity. I have been asked “What do you teach?” and I have replied, “Not to overplan.” In art or craft or explorations of life, there are forks in the path where we least expected them, where the [...]
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