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Highlander Folk School — Part 5

34 pages · May 10, 2026 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Highlander Folk School · 34 pages OCR'd
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¢ on =f. 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 . 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 ro isrter 43,468 ur a ee Wat yy Myit mil teos wii Ss ré al aa C ra *
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