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Highlander Folk School — Part 5
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Zilphia Horton end ijargaret Bryan were the directors. Zilphia
taucht folk dancinz and sin linc, Maria StenfZel held classes in
arts and crafts. Tue canjers nade their ovm pupvets under the
supervision of Leon Wilson and entertained the entire camp on Sat-
urday nights with puppet snows. iiarry Laszer “teught" the caup-
ers by telling tiem e seriel story about a union boy every night
@round the camp fires
The junior union camp. like the other sessions at highlander,
was run on @ cooverative basis. The children had the responsibil-
ity of keeping their osbins clean, washing dishes, setting tables,
kecping their clothes in good order. Large emounts of sleep end
good food allowed them to carry @ full program and at the seme
time to build good heelth end gain weight.
Thirtcecn of the exmoors cam from 4F of L homes, seven had
perénts who wore monbers of the CIO, and threc came from unemployed
nomcse Tnese children, who em from comiunitics in Tenneseuc,
Kentucky, Georgia, ord arkens:s, roturmd to their homes with a
real expericnec of coopvrative living which should help them in
their home life, with en understanding of som of the fundemntals
of unionism, with tac lmowledz. of now to produce siunle skits
and sing the labor songs fomi liar to thcir parcnts.
Lost of the childrcn carned part of tho :10 fee for the
tyow.cks by scllinz erndy end cookics end by doing odd jobs.
Scholershios wor. provided for the children whose perents wers
unndle to peys
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Tl, COG.UNITY aND COUNTY PrOunaw
9. iRRSERY SCHOOL
The nursery school opened on may 12th under the direction of
iss Joan Fayne, of Pleasantville, iWew York, a senior at Sarah
Lawrence Collere, where ehe received training in nursery school
work under Kiss Evelyn Beyer.
\.wea the school closed for the winter in Christmas, 1940,
the enrollmert was eleven. It opened in slay with nineteen, repe
senting fifteen families in Sumerfield comunity. In the s60-
sd to twent; -one, rei
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