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Letter from the Executive Director
Mary Berry Welcome to the Berry Center located in New Castle, Kentucky. I write this today from the law offices of Berry and Floyd where my grandfather John M. Berry, Sr. started his law practice in...
View ArticleThe Berry Center Newsletter – Summer 2012
The Berry Center 2012 Newsletter is now available for download. (Click here to download) The newsletter covers all major happenings from this past summer and leads directly into our fall and winter...
View ArticleReasons For Hope
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...
View ArticleThe One-Act Opera, Payne Hollow, Premiered This Weekend
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...
View ArticleHope in The Land
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...
View ArticleJohn M. Berry, JR.: Outstanding Public Leader
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...
View ArticleHope in the New Marketplace
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...
View ArticleStrategic Long Term Plan for Kentucky Agriculture
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...
View ArticleCity or Country?
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,...
View ArticleReasons For Hope
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...
View ArticleThe One-Act Opera, Payne Hollow, Premiered This Weekend
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...
View ArticleHope in The Land
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...
View ArticleJohn M. Berry, JR.: Outstanding Public Leader
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...
View ArticleHope in the New Marketplace
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...
View ArticleStrategic Long Term Plan for Kentucky Agriculture
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...
View ArticleCity or Country?
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,...
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Good Work For The New Year
I will remember 2015 as the year that our efforts at The Berry Center to rebuild an economy that will support a diversified land conserving agriculture took a manageable shape. We have worked hard for...
View ArticleLessons From “It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture And Other Essays”
During February The Berry Center posted excerpts from Mr. Berry’s 2012 speech, “It All Turns on Affection,” The Jefferson Lecture for the National Endowment for the Humanities. It has been published...
View ArticleSuccinct And Tangible Connections
The Berry Farming Program at St. Catharine College is working hard to “[d]raw succinct and tangible connections between education and communities and the land.”[1] Recent publications illustrate this...
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Wendell Berry on Censorship
The President of the University of Kentucky, Eli Capilouto, asked for input about whether or not to remove the Memorial Hall fresco depicting antebellum Lexington, Kentucky. Fresco Painted by Anne Rice...
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