by Berry Center | Mar 25, 2017 | Farming
By Marry Berry Michele Guthrie, The Berry Center’s Archivist, recently found this quotation from my grandfather John Berry, Sr., “We agree to differ, we resolve to love, and we may cooperate to serve.” This was handwritten on the top of a church bulletin dated 1949....
by Berry Center | Mar 25, 2017 | Berry Farming Program
We are deeply saddened by the announcement of the pending closure of St. Catharine College, a school located in the heart of the state and at the heart of the Washington County, Kentucky community. Though St. Catharine College is closing the Berry Farming and...
by Michele Guthrie | Aug 12, 2014 | News
Today a visitor to the Berry Center asked an intriguing question: “Is there a book of Wendell Berry’s that would help one decide whether it would be better to live in the country or in a city?” Well, there is, no doubt, a book Mr. Berry has written that would help...
by Tanya | Jul 8, 2014 | News
John M. Berry, Jr. of Henry County, Kentucky has worked his entire life on behalf of farm families, during a distinguished career as a lawyer in New Castle, Kentucky and as a state senator representing the 26th senatorial district in Kentucky from 1973 – 1982. From...
by Michele Guthrie | Jun 11, 2014 | News
Recently I re-read Wendell Berry’s 2012 Jefferson Lecture of the National Endowment for the Humanities and I came across what I find so often in his writing – reasons to be hopeful. Here is the excerpt that inspired me: “The losses and damages...
by Michele Guthrie | May 8, 2014 | News, The Berry Center Archivist
There would be hope in effective public leadership if we had it. But ecological degradation is not a political issue in Kentucky; it is not much more a political issue nationally. And I don’t see help coming very soon from leaders in education. What I do see, and I...
by Michele Guthrie | Apr 1, 2014 | News
We still see, furthermore, that we are not helpless. Two great powers, if we will align ourselves with them and use them, are in our favor. They are land health and conservation. Land health, Aldo Leopold wrote, “is the capacity of the land for self-renewal.” And...
by Michele Guthrie | Mar 17, 2014 | News
Shawn Jaeger’s Payne Hollow, a one-act opera, will have its world premiere on March 14th and 16th at the Bard College Conservatory of Music. Payne Hollow is based on Wendell Berry’s short play, Sonata at Payne Hollow (Larkspur, 2010), which depicts, in...
by Michele Guthrie | Mar 7, 2014 | The Berry Center Archivist
A new year brings thoughts of resolutions and new endeavors. My resolution is to be more hopeful, in all things. But recently it has been a challenge for me to find reasons to be hopeful. Wendell Berry’s list of authentic reasons for hope, which I found in the...
