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...
