folk school

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She attended a folk school throughout her youth which engaged her in arts, crafts, music and working with her hands.

From Washington Times • Jul. 22, 2017

But there are more and more thirsty minds, judging by the steadily growing folk school movement in the United States, where there are more than 200 schools of varying description.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 21, 2017

At eighteen, she enrolled in a Norwegian folk school and learned how to dogsled.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 26, 2016

The fund is administered by the Highlander Research and Education Center, as the folk school is now known.

From New York Times • May 7, 2015

That wakens the memory of the instruction of the old Karstensen, her teacher when she attended the folk school, from which we understand that he appears in the place of her father.

From Sleep Walking and Moon Walking A Medico-Literary Study by Sadger, J.