From the very beginning, Berry had farming in his blood: Both sides of his family had been cultivating the same land for generations. Wendell Erdman Berry (born 1934) is an American novelist, poet, essayist, environmental activist, cultural critic, and farmer. 0. Which is not to say that Berry renounces the use of green energy. It was dangerous and a polluter, he acknowledged, but also handy and fast. On the dashboard were two lengths of wood, sharpened at one end, which he identified as tobacco sticks. John Berry became an attorney, married Virginia Erdman Perry, from Port Royal, and established himself as a prominent citizen of Henry County. It is the knowledge that people have of each other, their concern for each other, their trust in each other, the freedom with which they come and go among themselves.. hooks, who taught The Hidden Wound at Berea College, told Berry how moved she was by the image of a little boy intervening in a scene charged with the hidden violence of racism. Berry, though, wrote almost twenty years later that he considered it perhaps the least satisfying book hed ever writtenhed barely begun to make sense of the subject. Wendell Berry, Urban Planning, and Gleaning. By his definition, a corporation is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance. Objecting to Supreme Court rulings that treat corporations as persons, Berry argues that the limitless destructiveness of this economy comes about precisely because a corporation is not a person. In other words, It can experience no personal hope or remorse, no change of heart. Berry observes, The deal we are being offered appears to be that we can change the world without changing ourselves. This kind of thinking enables us to continue using too much energy of whatever color, hoping that fields of solar panels and ranks of gigantic wind machines will absolve us of guilt as consumers. A few hours west of the decapitated mountains of Appalachia is the part of Kentucky known as the Bluegrass region. An earlier version of this article misstated HerbE. Smiths role in the creation of Appalshop. The first is that, contrary to Berrys assumption, the North and the South, the factory and the plantation, were never mutually exclusive systems, but intricately linked, as much recent scholarship has shown. When the South seceded, after the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860, it was because Lincoln and the Republican Party to which he belonged wanted (at the time) to stop the expansion of slavery, not end the institution of human bondage. At the old Ford acreage, he showed me where the tobacco was taken after the harvest. So, when I saw that Mr. Berry would be speaking at the Hindman Settlement School in Kentucky as part of their Appalachian Writer's Workshop, I signed up for a ticket (which was FREE!!). for its efforts to clean up waters polluted by toxic mining runoff. Wendell Berry, a quiet and humble man, has become an outspoken advocate for revolution. In 1972, after spending two days flying over the coalfields of Kentucky, he wrote, The damage has no human scale. We drove along a creek called Cane Run, through a forest of sycamores, hickories, and maples, in shades of gold and rust. Most U.S. farmers, regardless of scale, receive off-farm incomeworking other jobs to stay afloat. On a summer night near the end of the war, Lucinda saw men in uniform making off with her husband on horseback, and set out behind them on foot, in her nightgown. John Berry served as the associations president from 1957 until 1975, and insisted that the programs were not handouts but the equivalent of a minimum wage. But even as the Gishes revealed the Tennessee Valley Authoritys role in strip mining and helped visiting journalists explore the regions ills, they were always careful not to publish demeaning pictures of local residents like those that typically illustrate such national stories. Hardcover, 222 pages, $45. Republican gubernatorial candidate Quarles calls for medical cannabis in Kentucky, Ky. lawmakers advance bill to keep coal on power grid, citing reliability concerns, Hopkinsville women appointed to state boards, Christian County sewing group donates quilts to foster care children, 2022 Hoptown Chronicle | All rights reserved, New farmers come closer to fulfilling their dreams at Wendell Berry program in Kentucky, New compendium of Kentucky writer Wendell Berrys essays published, Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues. Shoemaker, who now edits Berry at Counterpoint Press, told me that his books were popular with environmentalists, hippies, and civil-rights advocates: Wendell was a hero to those people, saying the unsayable out loud. His ideas about the virtues of agrarian societies had sweeping implicationsto solve the problems of the modern world required thoroughly reconceiving how we live. Finding their camp, she reached for Johns hand and took him home. Neither was the South a region that prized a sense of placecotton and tobacco were hard on the land, but it was cheaper to work the soil to exhaustion and then move on. Indeed, he frames the whole book around hooks challenge that the true work of love is to repair what the artificial boundaries of race, class, gender, and (Berry adds) the human/natural has split apart. Publication of his first novel, Nathan Coulter, which was inspired by his experiences in Henry County, was followed by a Guggenheim Fellowship, which allowed Berry and his wife, Tanya, to spend a few years living the expat writers life in Europe. May 19th 2022 W endell berry was almost 30 when he packed up his life as a New York intellectual and decamped to Port Royal, a tiny community in Kentucky where generations of his forebears had. I didnt like confinement, he said. Hidden in the woods on a slope above the Kentucky River, just south of the Ohio border, is a twelve-by-sixteen-foot cabin with a long front porch. The Fiechters sell the duck eggs, along with pigs and mushrooms that they raise. But often its just to check in on the henslike I call for the kids. She admitted that farmwork is gruelling and filled with uncertainty. He replied that hes become more careful in his use of the word hope: Jesus said, Take no thought for the morrow, which I take to mean that if we do the right things today, well have done all we really can for tomorrow. Wendell and Tanya share the house with their amiable sheepdog, Liz, who greeted me in a light rain as I climbed a set of steep stairs from the road. After visiting Berry at his Kentucky farm, Wickenden wrote, From this sliver of vanishing America, Berry cultivates the unfashionable virtues of neighborliness and compassion. In the nineteen-twenties, with the original house in disrepair, Wendells bachelor great-uncle Curran Mathews painstakingly took apart what remained and used the lumber to make a camp along the Kentucky River, where he could escape the bounds of the accepted. Wendell, a melancholic and rebellious boy, found peace in the tumbledown camp, even though it flooded every time the river overflowed. The ducks, I learned, belong to their partners, Caleb and Kelly Fiechter, who live across the road. For centuries, Hudson Valley farmers have used the winter months to store seed, swap stories, and lay the groundwork for a bountiful growing season. And if there is one overriding theme that has always defined Berrys thinking (and has, to his critics, marked him as a dour Luddite), it is the sanctity and obligation to work with ones own hands, no matter how lowly the task. Berry knows thishe knows that the racial issue could never have been resolved by the plantation system, just as it cannot be rectified by todays market economybut he keeps getting distracted by resentment. My literary hero. He put his hand on my shoulder and said, No, no, honey, then hastily explained himself: Thats our way of taking the sting out of it, you see, when we correct someone. He showed me the swirling grain of the mauls head, chopped from the roots of a tree, and swung it over his shoulder to demonstrate how it becomes a natural extension of the body. The two were well matched. The hero of the book is Nick Watkins, a Black man who worked for Wendells grandfather and lived in a two-room house on the Berry property. As we climbed a steep rise, Wendell talked about how the Fords had felled trees and extracted rocks, so that the hill could be plowed for tobacco. He is an elected member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, a recipient of The National Humanities Medal, and . The two couples sell the vegetables and much of the pork and beef at Louisvilles two farmers markets, to the local Community Supported Agriculture organization, and to a recently opened restaurant, the New Castle Tavern. Joseph said theyd use the hay bales in the far field as winter feed for the animals, spreading it around their cropland to make sure that the manure was evenly distributed, enriching the topsoil. His latest book, The Need to Be Whole: Patriotism and the History of Prejudice, is the culmination of a lifetime of thinking and writing, and it is by turns infuriating, brilliant, lazy, startlingly radical, deeply disappointing, and filled with love, even as it seethes with resentment. As Liz ran into the pasture, Wendell and I went into the barn. And so youve made your maul. When Laura Dunn decided to make a film about America's foremost farmer-philosopher, Wendell Berry, she ran into one . In Tobacco Harvest: An Elegy, a book of photographs that Berrys college friend James Baker Hall took in 1973 at a neighbors farm, Berry writes about the cultivation of tobacco as a sort of agrarian passion, because of its beauty at nearly every stage of production and because of the artistry required to produce it. At harvest time, neighbors swapped work, as they did when putting up hay or killing hogs, undertakings that took days and required intense collective labor. Now he has tried again. The tobacco program launched under the Agricultural Adjustment Act collapsed in 2004, and the Burley Association soon followed, done in by sustained assaults from cigarette manufacturers, health advocates, and globalization. For Berry, as for hooks, love was more than a feeling. We are now reduced to one significant choice, Berry writes in the books final paragraph. In July, 1966, as Berry entered the seventh year of trying to tame his unwieldy novel A Place on Earth, my father presented him with extensive suggestions for excision, notifying him that, unless further and fairly drastic cuts are made, the book in print will be some 672 closely set pages. Wendell replied, Let me make myself perfectly clear. It goes about its business as if it were immortal, with the single purpose of becoming a bigger pile of money.. Wendell maintained that the purpose of the Burley Association was to achieve fair prices, fairly determined, and with minimal help from the government., Berry often writes of trying to nurture a human economythe antithesis of Americas total economy, run by latter-day robber barons and the politicians who count on their donations. All rights reserved. On Febru. (?) It seems as if the only point to his revisionist history is to try to beat the thoughtless trolls at their own game, flinging back in their face the truism that the urban North has never been pure and virtuous. Sixty years after renouncing modernity, the writer is still contemplating a better way forward. Second-grade teachers gave boys knives for perfect attendance, but he spurned the bribe, and by the eighth grade was earning Fs in conduct. Beshear agreed to visit a few particularly afflicted towns. One evening in 1964, my father, Dan Wickenden, came home from his editorial office at Harcourt Brace, in midtown Manhattan, and described his new author: a lanky youth of thirty, who sat with his elbows on his knees, talking in a slow Kentucky cadence and gesturing with large, expressive hands. The Need to Be Whole returns to these themes, even while it takes a bitter twist that many of his longtime fans, like myself, may find difficult and disappointing. He was named to be the Jefferson Lecturer for 2012. Pouring feed for the animals, he shouted, Liz, bring em on! She quickly rounded up a flock of thirtywhite-faced, bare-legged, their torsos wrapped in shaggy fleece. Kentucky was a border state, and civilians were subject to routine acts of lawlessness by bands of soldiers, Confederate and Union. That applies to writing. Get our latest headlines delivered to your inbox daily. Berry pointed out a youthful shot of his wife, Tanya, with cropped, wavy hair, striding along a hillside by their house. Several of Berrys friends urged him to abandon the book, anticipating Twitter eruptions and withering reviews., My friends, I think, were afraid, now that I am old, that I am at risk of some dire breach of political etiquette by feebleness of mind or some fit of ill-advised candor, Berry writes. She sums up what we know: Berrys admirers call him an Isaiah-like prophet. Wendell said, My dad saw grown men leaving the warehouses crying.. He posed for a photograph several years ago in front of the solar panels by his house, grinning and flashing a peace sign. Bayens said that everyone in the program worried about the risks: We are in a terrible situation. Then he said, Your father must have known what an ass I was making of myself., When it came time to design the books jacket, Berry refused anything that might be construed as self-promotion. He writes of exchanging friendly talk with Trump voters at Port Royals farm-supply store, a kind of tolerance that is necessary in a small town: If two neighbors know that they may seriously disagree, but that either of them, given even a small change of circumstances, may desperately need the other, should they not keep between them a sort of pre-paid forgiveness? For if everything is connected through the violence of American-style capitalism, then it can be reconnected according to lovenot the treacly, John Lennon Top 40 variety, but the radical love that Berry learned from his conversations with fellow Kentuckian bell hooks (published in hooks Belonging: A Culture of Place), with whom he opens his introduction. Renowned author Wendell Berry has been named the winner of the 2022 Henry Hope Reed Award. It means the mouse isnt in my pantry.. Wendell spent the party with him, bringing out ice cream and cake to share. My family lived rather austerely in what Dan called exurban Connecticut, where he chopped wood for our fireplace and tended an organic vegetable garden. In 1974, someone threw a firebomb into its offices. We walked through a greenhouse and their five-acre vegetable gardenasparagus, squash, carrots, cucumbers, tomatoes, garlic, onions, potatoes, celery, and lettuceand on to the Fiechters pigs, a five-way cross between Red Wattle, Duroc, wild boar, Wessex Saddleback, and Meishan. The daughter of Berrys first commercial editor, Wickenden draws on his and Berrys correspondence from 1964 to 1977, when the writer, as he acknowledged then, was still discovering himself. I am suggesting, he once wrote, that most people now are living on the far side of a broken connection, and that this is potentially catastrophic., I asked him if he retains any of his youthful hope that humanity can avoid a cataclysm. Wallace Stegner once wrote to him, Your books seem conservative. It also would have been about 300 pages shorter. She was outside, and one of the roosters was crowing raucously. Youre not responsible for solving the whole problemyou just do what you can do., Four years ago, the Berry Center and Sterling College, an experiential learning school in Craftsbury, Vermont, started the Wendell Berry Farming Program, which provides twelve students tuition-free study on Henry County farms. Although Berry is enviably prolific, he doesnt find writing easy. Wendellrangy, with a slight writers stoopstood on the porch, holding the door open with a wide smile. The following year, he marched against the Vietnam War in Lexington, where he told the crowd that, as a member of the human race, he was in the worst possible company: communists, fascists and totalitarians of all sorts, militarists and tyrants, exploiters, vandals, gluttons, ignoramuses, murderers. But, he insisted, he was given hope by people who through all the sad destructive centuries of our history have kept alive the vision of peace and kindness and generosity and humility and freedom., On Valentines Day weekend, 2011, Berry joined a small group of activists to occupy Governor Steve Beshears office in Frankfort, as hundreds more marched outside with I Love Mountains placards. Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter (Shoemaker and Hoard, 2004) 1-59376-078-7 $16.95 190. This will never be presented to us as one large and final choice, but only as a succession of small choices, continuing to the seventh and the seven-hundredth generation. Though these choices are smallwhat food we eat and where it comes from, how we earn our livings and what we spend our time on, what we love and what we pay attention tothey are choices whose choosing will send us down different paths. Slate is published by The Slate Group, a Graham Holdings Company. To purchase tickets for the Show-Me 100 or any event on Lucas Oil Speedway's schedule, or to inquire about camping information, contact Admissions Director Nichole McMillan at (417) 295-6043 or via email at nichole@lucasoilspeedway.com. Kentucky at the time was overwhelmingly rural, and the U.S. as a whole had only just become a nation in which the majority of its inhabitants lived in urban areas. Berrys critics see him as a utopian or a crank, a Luddite who never met a technological innovation he admired. Thats the pinch of the hourglass., Two years ago, in The New York Review of Books, Verlyn Klinkenborg complained about Berrys habit of pointing out our hollow lives, our degenerate bodies, our feelings of dislocation and spiritual bankruptcy. True enough. One of the pieces, Think Little, announced, Nearly every one of us, nearly every day of his life, is contributing directly to the ruin of this planet. Berry went on to say that he was ashamed and deeply distressed that American government should have become the chief cause of disillusionment with American principles., I was curious about Berrys evolution from a self-described small writer into an internationally acclaimed man of letters. School held little interest for Wendell. Craning my neck, I could imagine how the tobacco sticks, laden with heavy leaves, were once hung on the rafters to dry. The second point is that the horrors of exploitation dont need to be weighed against one another. Learning / August 7, 2015 January 20, 2022 / Wendell Berry. Smith told me that in the past half century, as coal jobs have disappeared, Appalshop has grown. For instance, he writes early on that slavery would have been a relationship of mutual affection between owner and owned, that an enslaved person would emerge from the abstraction of market value to become a known person, known moreover as a member of the farms community of humans and other creatures. He posits that abuse and cruelty must have been rare, because such treatment would have wasted time and that, after the days work was done, enslaved people were relatively free to venture as they wished. A society with an absurdly attenuated sense of sin starts talking then of civil war or holy war.. They aimed to convince the Governor to withdraw from a lawsuit that the Kentucky Coal Association had filed against the E.P.A. He was pretty sure he knew the culprit. He noted a few years ago, That insight has instructed and amused me very much, because she is right and so forthrightly right. In his new book, he has a characteristically bittersweet message: Because the age of global search and discovery now is endingbecause by now we have so thoroughly ransacked, appropriated, and diminished the globes original wealthwe can see how generous and abounding is the commonwealth of life. But he has never suggested that everyone flee the city and the suburbs and take up farming. Someone took out a few panes and tried to get into my safe. Berrys admirers call him an Isaiah-like prophet. The land was part of a fifty-acre tract that Wendells maternal grandfather sold in 1931, to a man Wendell referred to as Mr. Arthur Ford and his sons Melvin and Marvin. One of the people at the sit-in was his friend HerbE. Smith, from a family of miners in Whitesburg. The camp has no plumbing or electricity. A beautiful poem of suffering, anxiety about the future, and ultimately-finally-love. With support from government agencies and foundations, it runs a radio station, a theatre program, an art gallery, a filmmaking institute, and a record label. Leah Bayens, the programs dean, told me that the students spend much of their time working outside. Like when the cats leave you a dead mouse on the doorstep. It upsets her daughter, but, she said, I kind of love it when they do that. When the rain let up, Berry and I drove south from Port Royal toward New Castle, to see his native land, where he and his brother, John, rambled as boys. It was some instinctive love of wilderness that would always bring me back here, he wrote, but it was by the instincts of a farmer that I established myself., He turned himself around at the University of Kentucky, where he earned undergraduate and masters degrees in English. Joseph grew up in Dupont, Indiana (population three hundred and forty), where his parents ran two small farms and his father worked full time for the Department of Natural Resources. Most readers who know Berry know him for The Unsettling of America, which begins: One of the peculiarities of the white races presence in America is how little intention has been applied to it. Mason cited Miss Minnie and Ptolemy Proudfoot, a couple she found particularly endearing. It had a smooth handle and a bulbous head, squared off at the end. Sometimes I dont believe I can stand it another day, but then Im working at problems I know how to deal with, to an extent., In 1960, as he embarked on A Place on Earth, he felt lost. When the Berrys children were growing up, the family had two milk cows, two hogs, chickens, a vegetable garden, and a team of draft horses. Ultimately, were using the curriculum as a way for farmers to make decisions informed by poetry, history, and literature, as well as the hard sciences.. But why pay any attention to the Krugmans, let alone the fetid Twitter swamp? My town, once celebrated for its laid-back weirdness, is now a turbocharged tech megalopolis beingshaped by exiles from places like Silicon Valley. The best of movies, TV, books, music, and more, delivered to your inbox. But there are two points worth making. I said Id thought they crowed only at dawn. I recognized the story, which he included in a piece of fiction in a recent issue of The Threepenny Review. When I was back home, he sent me a diagram and explained how the strength of the wood came from the trees immersion in the soil: The growth of roots makes the grain gnarly, gnurly, snurly: unsplittable. After you cut the tree, you square off the root end. In Hueysville, a resident named Ricky Handshoe took him to Raccoon Creek, which had turned a fluorescent orange. Wendell picked up a maul, which Meb had made from a hickory tree. And he took up organic gardening. This summer, hell publish a sprawling nonfiction book, The Need to Be Whole, followed by a short-story collection in the fall. In a surprisingly sympathetic essaysurprising given its appearance in the New Yorker, a publication not known for its sympathy with agrarians from rural Kentucky-Dorothy Wickenden describes a . Its lazy. He grew up in Baltimore, surrounded by Black market owners, Morgan State graduates, mayors, murals, and Maya Angelou poems. Henry County is ninety-four per cent white. In 1977 he turned his back on the urban, urbane academic life, resigned from the University of Kentucky, and went home to Henry County, where he turned to traditional farming. The family had sat around the fire earlier, speculating about how much he would get for the years crop, and how they would use the money to pay down their debts. I think what gives us the most hope is collaborating with others. Today, some eighty per cent of U.S. government subsidies go to farms with revenues of more than a million dollars a year. THE MORAL AND SPIRITUAL VISION OF WENDELL BERRY Instructor Dr. Brian Volck Schedule Mondays, 6:00 - 8:30 pm Description This course will explore the essays, . Berry once defined community this way: A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define and limit the possibilities of each others lives. He had made a bird feeder and fastened it to the porch railing, so he could watch the comings and goings of chickadees, titmice, juncos, and jays. . It is a geologic upheaval. Entire mountaintops were torn off and cast into the valleys, he added. Their first decision was to replace its anodyne motto, A Friendly Non-Partisan Weekly Newspaper, with It Screams. Not everyone welcomed the papers candor about the hazards of mining and the misdeeds of corrupt officials. All rights reserved. Id learned from the letters that it was my father who introduced Berry to the practice, sending him Leonards book Gardening with Nature, and recommending the works of Sir Albert Howard. When I told a friend, a dedicated organic gardener, that I was writing about Wendell Berry, she replied, I wonder if your father ever asked Berry to lighten up. Readers of his fiction and poetry might find that line of inquiry puzzling. He divides his time between writing and farmwork, continuing his vocation of championing sustainable agriculture in a country fueled by industrial behemoths, while striving to insure that rural Americans a mocked, despised, and ever-dwindling minority do not perish altogether., Berry let Wickenden read, and quote from, his forthcoming book, due this summer: The Need to Be Whole, in which He argues that the problem of race is inextricable from the violent abuse of our natural resources, and that White peoples part in slavery and all the other outcomes of race prejudice, so damaging to its victims, has also been gravely damaging to white people. Liz jumped onto the cargo bed. Wickenden probably didnt realize it, but for some readers those lines will echo in another part of her story, about Berrys connections to Appalachia and the town of Whitesburg, including Tom and Pat Gish, who published The Mountain Eagle every week for 52 years, even after their office was firebombed by a local policeman who state police said was hired by coal operators. It is a scene from the Book of Revelation. Mary and her husband, Steve Smith, own a steep, heavily wooded three-hundred-acre farm in Trimble County. He wrote to Dan that hed like to forgo an author photo, and asked that the flap copy, if there must be any at all, be kept to a description of the book, objective as possible. As for author interviews: Why, before I have come to any coherent understanding myself of what Im doing here, should I admit some journalist to render it all in the obvious clichs? He finally relented about the photo, after Dan pleaded, Perhaps absurdly, it can help to persuade people to read the book it adorns, and we do want people to read your book, and I dare say even you wont mind too much if people read your book., In those days, the best-seller lists were filled with novels by Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth, Joseph Heller, and Saul Bellownot to mention Jacqueline Susann and Harold Robbinsand it wasnt clear that Berry would ever find an audience. Chuckling, Berry noted that the only thing they changed was the slogan: It Still Screams. He added, That story has been worth a lot to me. The exploiters only ever stick around in one place as long as theres easy profit to be made, but the nurturers stay put. Another way to describe what Berry is doing is that hes casting American history as a conflict between capitalism and something more social, communal, and rooted in the earthwhat he calls agrarianism. 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