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The Ely Folk School is hiring Do you feel strongly about handcraft? Do you want to learnskills that enhance your life and well-being? Do you want toconnect with Ely’s community about folk schooling? Join our team! Ely Folk School Mercantile Manager Job Description Job Summary: The Ely Folk School Mercantile Manager works in the Ely […]
March Newsletter
Happy March! Known to many Elyites as the best month of the year, March offers warmer and sunnier winter days. Despite the strong layers of ice still coating the lakes, here at the Ely Folk School, our last couple weeks have been full of planning excitedly for the spring melt. Already, folks are starting to […]
February Newsletter
Happy Winter Festival! What a marvelous time to be in Ely. The Ely Winter Festival is perhaps the best time of year to see the wide range of arts and culture that Ely boasts. Live, local music multiple times a week; snow sculptors spending hours on hours crafting incredible works of snow; the first annual […]
January Newsletter
A Year in Review How has the year 2022 already come and gone? Upon reflection, it somehow feels like the longest year that so quickly flew by. Much has happened, both in our collective world and in my personal circle. The Ely Folk School has been a major part of my year and it would be […]
A Year in Review
Written by Alexia Springer How has the year 2022 already come and gone? Upon reflection, this year somehow feels like the longest year that so quickly flew by. Much has happened, both in our collective world and in my personal circle. The Ely Folk School has been a major part of my year and it […]
December Newsletter
Boozhoo! Warm December greetings to you all. Many of you may have already heard about our collaboration with the Bois Forte Heritage Center. On November 30, 2022, the final day of Native American Heritage Month, we unveiled our Bois Forte Native Names Map at the Bois Forte Heritage Center and Cultural Museum. This map reclaims over 100 […]
Bois Forte Native Names Map
The Legacy Edition Maps are sold out, thank you to everyone who donated! Standard maps will be available for purchase in 2023 at the Ely Folk School and Bois Forte Heritage Center. TOWER—Mesaba, Biwabik, Kawishiwi, Saganaga—these northern Minnesota place names are among many easily recognized as having native origins associated with the region’s indigenous Ojibwe […]
November Newsletter
View this email in your browser November Newsletter What fantastic fall weather we have been having in the north woods. Although the wind has been fierce and seemed to chill to the bone at times, we’ve had many sunny days with colors ablaze. I know these days are just preparing us for the weather to […]
October Newsletter
Hello October! This is one of my favorite times of the year. The chaotic rhythm of summer starts to slow, but hasn’t fully disappeared. It’s replaced by a new type of chaos -one of rehoming, reconnecting, renewing the helpful habits and warm rituals that carry us through the winter. This month feels especially geared toward […]
Burntside’s First Paddle
The 20ft Birch Bark Canoe, “Burntside” has finally hit the water! Read the story about the first paddle by Keith Vandervort from The Timberjay.