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Want to learn how to do things? The Duluth Folk School is the place

The North 103.3 | By Lisa Johnson
Published August 16, 2017 at 10:58 AM CDT
©Bryan French. Used with permission.

Funny they didn't offer a series of classes on "how to rehab old water-damaged buildings."

But there are plenty of treats in store for visitors to 1917 W Superior Street.

The new home of the Duluth Folk School will not only offer classroom space, in an effort to diversify and make the venture sustainable, they'll be renting out studio space (each with a skylight), offering a marketplace with locally handcrafted goods from instructors and tenants, and debuting The Dovetail Cafe.

Credit ©Bryan French. Used with permission.
Necessity is the mother of invention: to get a generous layer of carpet glue off a wood floor, attach three wallpaper steamers to one another, put the contraption on the floor for a minute or two to soften the glue, then scrape it off with an ice scraper.

Credit ©Bryan French. Used with permission.
The tin ceiling was another surprise, hidden above acoustic tiles. Here it gets a fresh coat of "tin foil" paint

For more behind-the-scenes look at the renovation, you can look at the Duluth Folk School's Facebook album, documenting the renovation.
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Lisa Johnson
Lisa Johnson started her broadcast career anchoring the television news at her high school and spinning country music at KWWK/KOLM Radio in Rochester, Minnesota. She was a reporter and news anchor at KTHI in Fargo, ND (not to mention the host of a children's program called "Lisa's Lane") and a radio reporter and anchor in Moorhead, Bismarck, Wahpeton and Fergus Falls.Since 1991, she has hosted Northland Morning on KUMD. One of the best parts of her job includes "paying it forward" by mentoring upcoming journalists and broadcasters on the student news team that helps produce Northland Morning. She also loves introducing the different people she meets in her job to one another, helping to forge new "community connections" and partnerships.Lisa has amassed a book collection weighing over two tons, and she enjoys reading, photography, volunteering with Animal Allies Humane Society and fantasizing about farmland. She goes to bed at 8pm, long before her daughter, two cats, or three dogs.
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