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Low tech and high touch: Folk schools boom as people crave working with their hands

by Dan Kraker

Nov 16, 2023

In an increasingly digital world, folk schools are sprouting in Minnesota and beyond, teaching traditional crafts and other lifelong skills.

Scott Uhl, a former timber framing student at North House Folk School, returned in October to help build a new welcome center for the school.

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No extra exposure in Asbury Park, N.J.

by Christina Huh

Jul 9, 2010

The Asbury Park City Council put the kibosh on a proposal to make Asbury Park a topless beach. MTV's "Jersey Shores" suggests that orange is the ...