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John C. Campbell Folk School students doing chores

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  • This photograph, taken around 1929, shows John C. Campbell Folk School students Ruth Young (left) and Bonnie Logan Hensley (right) performing general house-cleaning duties such as window-washing at Keith House. Students were involved in daily chores such as cooking, cleaning, gardening, and farming. Hensley also produced woodcarvings sold through the school's woodcarving cooperative which became known as the Brasstown Carvers.