The following is a post by local blogger, Tipper Wilson Pressley. Visit Tipper’s blog, Blind Pig & the Acorn about all things Appalachia. Two Blacksmiths have moved into my house this week-well actually they already lived here-I guess I should say 2 of the Blind Pig family have become Blacksmiths this week. During Little Middle [...]
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The card games and volleyball have been put away, and the sound of children over the Folk School campus has dissipated. This can only mean that Little/Middle Folk School is over. The students made a wide variety of wonderful Appalachian crafts. They also enjoyed nightly contra dances, afternoon activities, wonderful food, and seeing old friends [...]
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Not only does the Folk School enhance the artistic skills of adults, but they also allow children to join in on the non-competitive atmosphere with Little/Middle Folk School. Little/Middle has been a long-standing tradition allowing children from all over the country and locally to come and learn Appalachian crafts such as weaving, blacksmithing, pottery, woodworking, [...]
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Thoughts from Julie Sibley, Little/Middle Instructor This is the brightest of summer days I dreamed of as a child! Part of why I love teaching at Little/Middle Folk School is because it puts me back into the land of wonder and delight, when joy was found in new knowledge and interesting new things to make. [...]
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It was a strange feeling, going back to Little/Middle again after almost three years. Strange, watching those innocent adventurers gallavanting about the Festival Barn, remembering what it was like to dance in their shoes. And stranger still, walking around campus, pen and camera close at hand, now that I was the experienced veteran walking around [...]
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