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Georg Bidstrup with pipe and cane

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  • This photograph, taken by Doris Ulmann in 1933 or 1934, shows Georg Bidstrup acting in the play, "Where Are You Going, My Good Old Man". Play writing and acting was a common practice in the early years of the John C. Campbell Folk School. Bidstrup came to the Folk School in 1926 as the Danish farm manager and gymnastics instructor. He married co-founder of the school, Marguerite Butler, in 1936. Bidstrup himself became director of the school in 1952.