ooden boat show Summer Solstice Festival w& June 16 - 18, 2017

20th ANNIVERSARY NORTH HOUSE FOLK SCHOOL • www.northhouse.org It’s our birthday! 20th ANNIVERSARY Don’t miss these special 20th anniversary additions to the Wooden Boat Show POP-UP CRAFT GALLERY Saturday, June 17 See the wide array of student-created work made in classes at North House. Get inspired to dive into a class yourself!

BIRCH, CEDAR, ASH: A IN 6 DAYS Monday, June 12 - Saturday, June 17 See craft in action as three instructors build a birch bark canoe that will be launched Sun- day, June 18 after our Annual Members Gathering.

COMMUNITY OF CRAFT INSTALLATION & BOOK And if you haven’t seen it yet, make sure to check out the Community of Craft installation WELCOME (L) in the Green Building. Commemorative books (R) are also for sale in the School Store. Wooden Boat Show & Summer Solstice Festival Get comfortable. Pull up a chair by Thank you for being a part of . Grab a bowl of chow- this inspiring gathering. Here’s to der. Fall in love with the lines of a the joys of hands-on craft, life-long boat. Feel the magic of the solstice learning and savoring the longest pageant. Listen to a story. Dance. days of the year. Bid. Eat. Learn. Sail. Gather. Wheth- er you’ve just found us by fortunate Get EVENT accident, or a trip to Wooden Boat the Pass! PASS HOLDER Show is a summer pilgrimage for Easy to get! BENEFIT! you, we’re glad you’ve journeyed Simple to use at all north to join us. of our three major We’re confident you’ll find plenty events for the year (Wooden Boat to dig into here at North House Folk Show, Unplugged, and Winterer’s School: mini courses, live craft dem- Gathering). Sign up for a pass EVENT onstrations, storytelling and more. AND automatically become a Boats-to-Tools PASS HOLDER With 200+ items, you’re guaranteed to find BENEFIT! After all, the season of long days and North House member! Individual Auction something at the Boats-to-Tools silent auction. starry nights has arrived and we’re Pass: $25, Family Pass: $50. Watch ready to celebrate. for the event pass icon throughout Fri, 7-8 pm • Sneak Peek for Member Sat, 10 am • Silent auction opens the program for your benefits! Event Pass Holders (Bidding & Buy-it- Sat, 4:30 pm • Silent auction closes Now section opens) ooden boat show w& Summer Solstice Festival 2 3 hot at times, brush is slow to make come- can take a pile of long thin wood strips and back. Volunteers learn teamwork, leadership turn them into a functional paddleboard. Wooden Boat Show Speaker Series and improve their backpacking skills along Jim believes it has been a natural transition Watch, listen, be inspired. The adventurous and spirited jour- the way. to move from studying what lives in water EVENT neys of sailors, boat builders and canoeists converge for two to building vessels that move across the PASS HOLDER days of inspirational presentations. Free with Member Event SATURDAY, JUNE 17 • 2pm water’s surface. In retirement he has built a BENEFIT! 20th Anniversary Boat: A Project to 14-ft kayak (shown at at the Wooden Boat Pass or $5/presentation for non-members. Become a member to- Celebrate North House with Dan Show in 2010), a 12-ft paddleboard (shown day, for as little as $25 and get the Member Event Pass! Strootman in 2014), and recently a 10-ft paddleboard FRIDAY, JUNE 16 • 1pm In 1999, North House and Grand Portage A life long paddler, Dan Strootman partici- (shown this year). Jim will compare the Preserving Indigenous with National Monument teamed up to build a pated in the first canoe building course ever three builds—all using wood-strip construc- Kemo Ahmicasaube Smith Mackinaw boat, a reconstructed version of offered at North House. Soon after, his tal- tion—but will provide more detail about Kemo Ahmicasaube Smith, an Anishinaabe the 19th century workboat that dominated ent as a canoe builder and restoration spe- this most recent build. artist and Elder from Little Traverse Bay the commercial indus- cialist quickly grew—an inspiring example Bands of Odawa, in Michigan, will share try. A small team of boat-builders, augment- of what happens when your hobby becomes SUNDAY, JUNE 18 • Noon perspectives on preserving Native cultural ed by the North House instructor cadre, a way of life! Now, for North House’s 20th Annual Membership Gathering heritage and skills. Emphasis is on current and dozens of North house students all Anniversary, Dan and a hardworking crew followed by Featured Presentation efforts and immersion programs to revital- participated in the effort. The project used collaborated to build a breathtaking one- “The Canoe: A Natural History in ize Anishinaabe culture, knowledge, and local materials and talent wherever possible, of-a-kind canoe, celebrating the utility and North America” with Mark Neuzil & language; including traditional birch bark and the boat, launched in June 2000 was beauty of craft. Join Dan as he shares the Norman Sims canoe building. named for Grand Portage boat-builder Paul behind-the-scenes story of constructing this Celebrate another year of mission-driven La Plante. David Cooper from the National piece of North House history, which will be success at North House: 2400+ students FRIDAY, JUNE 16 • 2pm Park Service will present an illustrated his- on display on campus until it is auctioned immersed in craft education, thousands Musical Mysteries Explained: Secrets tory of the project as well as a dockside tour off during Unplugged 2017! of visitors to campus engaging our story of Deepwater Worksongs with Bob of the finished boat. through community gatherings, special Walser SATURDAY, JUNE 17 • 3pm events, public programs and live demon- Sea shanties—the worksongs of deep water FRIDAY, JUNE 16 • 4pm Lake Superior Tall with Phil stration. The meeting, open to all (with sailors—are perennial favorites at folk and Hiking the BWCA: The Pow Wow Peterson & Gordon Ringberg opportunities for current members to vote), maritime festivals, campfire songfests and Trail Returns with Martin Kubik Lake Superior Tall Ships provides youth sail will highlight what our strong community of other informal musical gatherings. The Traveling by canoe isn’t the only way to training aboard the Abbey Road, supporters has accomplished and foreshad- product of a brief historical moment, these experience the Boundary Waters Canoe inspires stewardship of Lake Superior, and ow the year ahead. Immediately following salty songs have continued to live long after Area Wilderness: a network of hiking trails promotes our maritime heritage. Based in the meeting, we will be joined by featured the demise of their original context. This criss crosses the wilderness, providing a the Bayfield Peninsula of Wisconsin, they are speakers Mark Neuzil and Norman Sims, talk will examine features of these songs and unique and beautiful perspective of this working to build or purchase a Tall that authors of “The Canoe: A Natural History explore how “survival of the fittest” may incredible landscape. Join Martin Kubik, will serve all the communities on the lake. in North America.” As veteran paddlers apply to this folk song genre. founder of the Kekekabic Trail Club and Come hear what this group of volunteers is and journalists Mark and Norman will share the Boundary Waters Advisory Committee doing now, and their ambitious plan for the their stories of the history of that most- FRIDAY, JUNE 16 • 3pm to learn about the Pow Wow Trail, much of future! American vehicle, the canoe, from the days The Paul La Plante Partnership: which burned during the Pagami Creek Fire of the dugouts and birchbark to modern Building A Mackinaw Boat at North in 2011. Martin will provide an update on SATURDAY, JUNE 17 • 4pm synthetic materials. Along the way, they will House with David Cooper the fire ecology of the area and discuss how Building a Wood-Strip Paddleboard speak of the natives, explorers, characters volunteers are tackling 6,000 tree falls and with Jim Eckblad and rogues who dot that history and per- maintaining a six mile section of the trail. In this illustrated presentation by Jim haps relate a few of their own experiences. New jack pine and poplar growth is abun- Eckblad, Emeritus Professor of Biology dant, and due to the fire burning extremely at Luther College, you will learn how you ooden boat show w& Summer Solstice Festival 4 5 • AFTERNOON SESSIONS •

SATURDAY, JUNE 17 • 3:00 PM Wood-Fired Artisan Bread Baking: A Tiny Taste w/Candace Lacosse $25 tuition, $5 materials fee See description on page 8

SATURDAY, JUNE 17 • 3:00 PM EVENT : An Intro to Minnesota’s PASS HOLDER BENEFIT! Trout Lakes w/ Mike Hero Mini Courses $25 tuition, materials included This year’s mini courses welcome students of all ages. Participate in a 2 hour Contrary to what you might imagine, hands-on mini-course: Pre-registration required, space is limited. Register online fly fishing does not require rushing or call to register (888-387-9762). Event pass holders/current members receive a glacial streams and dramatic mountain $5 discount on participation. Set Sail! backdrops. In fact, some of the best fly Lake Superior Sailing on our 50’ fishing for brook, brown and rainbow Schooner Hjørdis • MORNING SESSIONS • trout in Northern Minnesota and Canada Advanced Reservations recommended. is readily available in the lakes and ponds Call 218-387-9762 or visit www.north- SATURDAY, JUNE 17 • 10:00 AM of the region. However, the strategies, house.org to reserve space. Wood-Fired Artisan Bread Baking: A Tiny Taste w/Candace Lacosse flies and equipment required to be suc- Summer Solstice $25 tuition, $5 materials fee cessful in these waters differ greatly from Schooner Sails Artisan bread is all the rage, but at North House, we’ve been pulling crispy crusts and traditional skills for stream fishing with a steaming dough out of our harbor-side wood-fired oven for years. With instructor fly. This course is designed to take some Saturday: 9am • 10am • 11am • Candace Lacosse, you’ll learn to bake delicious foccacia that you can replicate in your of the mystery out of stillwater fishing 1pm • 2pm • 3pm own home oven. Discover the magic of wood-fired baking and taste the delectable and introduce students to the world Enjoy sailing on Lake Superior results, leaving with a loaf of foccacia to share with your family (or keep it for yourself: of fly fishing Minnesota’s trout lakes. aboard the 50’ schooner Hjordis. we won’t tell!). North House offers a variety of fly fish- Maximum of 6 participants. $25 ing, fly tying and fly casting classes for per passenger per sail. SATURDAY, JUNE 17 • 10:00 AM those who take this course and decide Lake Superior Schooner Birch Bark Birds w/Beth Homa-Style they want to learn more. Beginners are Adventure $25 tuition, $5 materials fee welcome! The story of the birch tree is integral to the North House story. In the capable hands Sunday: 9am • 11am • 1pm of our teachers and students, this one tree is shaped into skis, boats, canoes, baskets, Maximum of 6 participants. $45 spoons, and even shoes. In this mini-course, you’ll taste the possibilities of birch bark per passenger weaving by trying your hand at weaving a charming small bird. Discover the history, ecology and changing fate of Minnesota’s birch, view a variety of birch crafts, and wet Please Note: Two-hour sails take place nearly your appetite for this versatile craft. every day at North House during the summer. Call 888-387-9762 for info or visit www.northhouse.org.

ooden boat show w& Summer Solstice Festival 6 7 FRIDAY, JUNE 17 SATURDAY, JUNE 18 SUNDAY, JUNE 19 COURSES all day = 9am - 4pm pre-registration required for all courses 9am • Coursework Begins All day • Waterfront Boat Display 9am – 3pm June 7 - 15 • West Greenland Skin-on- Waterfront Wooden Boat Display Frame Kayak: Build Your Own 9am-5pm • Birch, Cedar, Ash: A Ca- All day • Live Craft on the Commons noe in 6 days: Day 5 June 8 - 17 • Sail Training Trip: Isle All day • Pop Up Craft Gallery in 501 Noon- Noon- Royale Circumnavigation Building 10:30am • Steam-Bent Brunch ($15 person, 5pm 7pm reservations recommended) June 13 - 15 • Blacksmithing: Crafting 1-5pm Live Craft Water- All day • Birch, Cedar, Ash: A Canoe in The Tools of the Trade Wooden Boat on the front 6 days: Day 6 Show Speaker Boat Commons 12:00pm • Annual Member Gather- June 13 - 15 • Primitive Rug Hooking: Series Display 9am- 1pm ing & Featured Speakers Mark Neuzil & Open Session details: pg 4 10am - 10am - 4pm ($5 or free w/ 3-4pm Live Noon Norman Sims “The Canoe: A Natural Silent Auc- June 14 - 16 • Artisan Cheesemaking Member Event Live Music: Jerry Music on Mini Cours- History in North America” followed by tion/Buy Pass) Vandiver and Grizel Campus: es: Morning the launching of the 6 Day Canoe. See session June 14 - 16 • Scandinavian Flat-Plane Williams Northern It Now description on pg 5 Aire/ Tom It Opens Pg 6 for Figure Carving details VanCleve – Boats-to- (registration June 19 - 20 • Canoe Portage Pack: Sew 5-7pm & Eric Tools Auc- required) Your Own Harborside Hahn tion Barbecue ($5- 11am June 19 - 20 • Artisan Cheesemaking: $10 at the door) 6-7 pm Wooden Boat Walking Scandinavian Cheeses & WTIP’s Road Boat Parade Tour House June 19 - 20 • Hand-Sewing the Canvas Listening Party Growler Bag Noon – 1pm See you next year! 7-8 pm 7-8 pm Lake Superior Chowder Experience June 19 - 21 • Hand-Forged “Using” Sneak Peek of Family Dance w/ ($10 at the door) JUNE 15-17, 2018 Knife Boats-to-Tools Northern Aire June 19 - 21 • Scandinavian Style Flat- Auction/Bidding & ($5/person; free w/ 2pm 2-5pm Wooden Plane Carving Continuation Buy It Now Opens Member Event Pass) Campus Tour Boat Show (Member Event Pass Speaker Series June 19 - 23 • Birch Bark Canoes: Tra- Holders only) 3-5pm Mini Courses: After- details: pg 4 ditional Construction noon session ($5 or free w/ Mem- 8-10 pm 8-9 pm Pg 7 for details June 19 - 25 • Cedar-Strip Boat Con- Community Contra Sea Shanties & ber Event Pass) (registration required) struction: Techniques & Fundamentals Dance w/ Northern Lumberjack Jam: Aire ($5/person; free Community Music w/ Member Event Circle Pass)

8pm Summer Solstice Pageant (featuring Good Harbor Hill Players & GAMEPALAJ) COMMUNITY GATHERINGS VISITING VESSELS Head down to the docks to see an assortment of interesting boats! Check out a Friday, 5-7 pm | Harbor-Side BBQ | ($5-$10) diversity of hulls – from wood to fiberglass to steel – and chat with the crews that Brats anyone? Kick-off your Wooden Boat Show weekend with the taste of sum- keep them afloat. mer on the harbor. Brought to you by the Cook County Lions, the BBQ features traditional summer fare (brats and burgers). This year, pull up a seat at the picnic Rosemary Ruth • Washburn, WI table for boats parading by, and good company. Length On Deck: 35' 10" Friday, 7-8 pm | Boats-to-Tools Auction Sneak Peek Length Over Rails: 40' EVENT Waterline Length: 29' 5" See what goes on behind the scenes, and get first dibs on Buy-It- PASS HOLDER Beam: 10' 4" BENEFIT! Now items. Start planning your bids for the morning! Draft: 5.5'

Friday, 7-10pm Community Contra Dance with Northern Hull, deck and cabin sides/ends: Welded steel, 10 gauge (3.5mm) plate EVENT Aire (7-8pm: Family Dance & 8-10: Community Dance) PASS HOLDER North House’s boatbuilding workshop converts into a traditional Cabintops: plywood with glass laminate BENEFIT! community contra dance on Friday night, welcoming families for the first hour to learn traditional dances geared towards families with Rosemary Ruth is a 40' steel, hard-chine, pinky schooner designed by Thomas children and the next two hours all are welcome for the community dance. $5 at Colvin (who also designed North House’s Hjordis). She was built in 1981 on the the door; free to Event Pass Holders. Great Lakes, then spent time on both east and west coasts and Hawaii. Owner Jesse Woodward found her on the hard, far up a backwater of the Hudson River Friday, 8-9 pm in a state of—mostly cosmetic—disrepair. Community Music Circle: Sea Shanties & Lumberjack Jam The Community Music Circle is a weekly get-together for players or singers, and Paul La Plante • Grand Portage, MN for one week only, they’ll be on campus at North House. Anyone is welcome to Length: 19' play a song or pass as they go around the circle. It can be sing-along/play-along, Keel, stem and stern posts: white oak or not. This is a very informal gathering that welcomes beginners to professionals. Bow and stern: tamarack tree knees Bring an instrument or a song, or just pull up a chair to listen. Planking and decks: white pine Spars, boom, gaff and oars: black spruce Saturday, 10am-4pm | Boats-to-Tools Auction Buy-it-Now and Silent Auction open - get your bids in and check out all the goodies! In 1999, North House Folk School and Grand Portage National Monument collaborated in the re-construction of a 19' Great Lakes Mackinaw Saturday, noon -1pm | Lake Superior Chowder Experience | $10 boat. Named for Grand Portage boat builder Paul Pick up your bowls early for 20th annual Lake Superior Chowder Experience—a La Plante, the boat was a labor of love for the festival highlight that brings many chowders from dozens of North Shore restau- many North House staff, students, and volunteers rants for you to taste. Smoky steelhead, salsa corn, walleye and clam, and even a who worked on it. take on watermelon were just a few of the interpretations area restaurants took last year. Combined with freshly baked breads from North House’s wood-fired oven, this is a North Shore culinary event not to be missed.

ooden boat show w& Summer Solstice Festival 10 11 CRAFTING on the CRAFTING on the COMMONS COMMONS Friday, June 16 - Saturday, June 17 Witness skilled traditional craft artisans as they join us over the weekend to celebrate the process of craft. Demonstrators will be on hand Friday-Saturday, welcoming your curios- ity, questions and interest.

LINDY LIND CODY MYERS FOXBORO, WI ROSEMONT, MN wolfheartironworks.com Demo: Building a birch bark canoe Demo: Blacksmithing and Knife-making Friday & Saturday Friday Only IAN ANDRUS EMILY DERKE GRAND MARAIS, MN NORTHOME, MN superioryurt.wordpress.com emilyderke.com Demo: Building a birch bark canoe Demo: Basketry Friday & Saturday Friday & Saturday

HARLEY REFSAL KAREN ROGNSVOOG DECORAH, IA MINNETONKA, MN Demo: Scandinavian Style Flat-Plane Carving Demo: Natural Plant Dyes Saturday Only Saturday Only

TINA FUNG-HOLDER BRENT GURTEK WASHBURN, WI DULUTH TOWNSHIP, MN Demo: Cattail Weaving Demo: Gunsmithing Friday & Saturday Friday & Saturday

JIM SANNERUD ROBERT SCHULZ ST. PAUL, MN HILLSBORO, WI jsannerud.com Demo: Blacksmithing Demo: Wooden Bowl Turning Saturday Only Friday & Saturday

BETH HOMA NATE JOHNSON ST. PAUL, MN NORTHOME, MN JACKSON SNEVE birchbarkbeth.squarespace.com ivegottwohands.com DULUTH, MN Demo: Birch Bark Weaving Demo: Building a birch bark canoe Demo: Birch Bark Weaving Friday & Saturday Friday & Saturday Friday & Saturday SPRING OUTREACH CAMPAIGN 2017

Looking Forward There are so many ways to plug into craft experiences at North House. Join us for the following events! Public Programs Winterer’s Gathering & Arctic Film June 22 - September 10 Festival • November 17 - 19 We’ll be offering public programs on cam- A multi-day educational event that cel- pus, including mini-courses in wood-fired ebrates the crafts, customs, landscape, baking and timber framing. There will also history, and stories of winter travel and At North House Folk School, we see You, a friend and supporter, are the be rotating Instructors-in-Residence on traditional life ways in the north. folks growing together every day. It starts spark that ignites these precious moments the Student Commons each weekend. Full wtih the crackling warmth of a woodstove of building community. schedule on our website. Begin | Continue exhibit heating the hands of a circle of students. For our Twentieth Anniversary, North November 17 - December 15 Unplugged & Folk Artisan Each learner holds a piece of wood, ap- House has set inspiring goals: expand our at the Johnson Heritage Post Marketplace • September 13 - 18 prehensive yet hopeful, longing to shape it base of supporters by 20% while also opening reception: November 17 into a first handmade spoon. They laugh securing $320,000 to open the door to the Tickets available July 1 This exhibit is the culminating celebration Come celebrate community, craft, storytell- together, share stories, and hours later— future of craft. of our 20th anniversary. Instructors have ing, and music on the shore of Lake Superior! hands sore from their inspired efforts—find There is no better time to step forward. been invited to reflect on a series of ques- Saturday night concert features Kevin Kling they have both carved a spoon and grown Right now, your gift counts toward a tions and will create work based on their who will be joined by Dan Chouinard, Brad- into a community. $30,000 dollar-for-dollar match. response. Part of the exhibit will also be a ley Greenwald, Prudence Johnson, Simone In a world all too confusing, North visual history of North House. Perrin, Claudia Schmidt, and Dane Stauffer. House is a place that simply makes sense. MEMBER BENEFITS “I love connecting to the community,” says • Member’s Day early course registration Flannel Formal • September 15 one student, “and getting inspired. • Biannual catalog and newsletters Tickets available July 1 Inspiration can be a life-changing spark.” • Free member event pass A fundraising dinner during Unplugged. • School store coupon Gather together and help support the mis- • Special invitations to events sion of North House. Live auction and 5 chefs presenting 5 courses. ooden boat show w& Summer Solstice Festival 14 15 THANKS FOR COMING! See you next year at the Wooden Boat Show June 15 - 17, 2018 Getting Involved at North House Join the circle of THANKS TO OUR Supporters & Students EVENT SPONSORS This activity is funded, in part, by the Minnesota Become a Member! State Arts Board through the arts and cultural Wooden Boat Show is a perfect time heritage fund as appro- priated by the Minnesota to let everyone know you believe in State Legislature with money from the Legacy North House. Join during the weekend Amendment vote of the people of Minnesota on and your impact doubles—helping November 4, 2008. us meet our Spring Appeal's $30,000 match, PLUS you Get the Member Event Pass! Staying Connected! Bluefin Bay Resort There’s no easier way to stay in touch than our e-newsletter. Photos, stories, updates! Plus sign up to receive our FREE course catalog in the mail– it’s an adventure waiting to happen. Visit Cook County The catalog is printed twice each year. Call us or visit our website to sign up!

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