This afternoon, many of our older citizens gathered in the Olive Dame Campbell Dining Hall for the annual Old Folks Party. They celebrated the holidays, visited with each other, shared stories and memories, and enjoyed music, games, and a delicious meal. For many of them, their parents or grandparents were responsible in part for the [...]
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Red sourwood trees framing the native stone fireplace and handmade, split-bottomed chairs witnessed Dedication Day for our Community Room of Keith House in 1927. This simple yet beautiful room became the cornerstone of the Folk School, and still proves to be the beating heart of our community. Dances, morningsong, concerts, readings, auctions, parties… something is [...]
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Over 600 instructors come to the Folk School each year to share invaluable gifts of knowledge, specific skills, and techniques with students. We are very fortunate to have Bob Dalsemer on our staff, who is being awarded the 2011 Lifetime Contribution Award from Country Dance and Song Society. Bob has been our Music & Dance [...]
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If you’ve been to the Folk School, you probably understand what people are talking about when they describe their time here as a transformative, life altering, maybe even a magical experience. For some folks, it has to do with delving deeper into their creativity (or discovering it!) For others, the sense of community is just [...]
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With the holiday season comes the message of “giving,” so from now through December, we’ll be blogging about the idea of Simple Gifts. Many classes we teach are rooted in a simpler time, when skills like weaving, blacksmithing, planting your garden, and bringing it to the table were part of daily life. The community that [...]
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