A Brand New "Green" House!

At the beginning of this month, a new student house opened its doors. Located next to Bidstrup House, near the trail that leads to Orchard House, the new building is being referred to as the "Field House," but naming opportunities still exist for its more permanent title.

In addition to featuring beautiful views all around, the building is a "green" one. The new student house rated very well in Energy Star modeling. The HERS rating is close to 50, which means it is expected to use only HALF the energy of a comparable code-compliant, conventionally built house!

We hope our student guests will enjoy all this high tech comfort as well as the simple Folk School style decor and furnishings (many made by local artists!).

Read more about the new building.

Ask our registration staff about this great new house next time you sign up for a class. Reserve your space early - it's filling up fast!

Calling Work/Study Applicants!

If you're interested in trading some physical labor for classes and have 9 weeks that you'd like to dedicate to being at the Folk School, read on! Perhaps Work/Study is for you! Work/Study students are a very important part of keeping the grounds looking great and helping out with much of the "behind-the-scenes" hard work that keeps the Folk School going strong.

If you have an interest in participating in our Work/Study program for 2009, you'll want to apply soon! The program is full for the first four sessions (through September 19), but we do have some positions left in Session 5 (September 20-November 21).

Click here to read more about our Work/Study program and to download an application.