Judy Valente is an award-winning journalist and a published poet.
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Poet Wendell Berry Bequeaths Farming Legacy to Small Catholic College
02-05-2016
Wendell Berry. Image via RNS
The Berry family has lived in these parts for nine generations. While pursuing a prolific writing career, Berry never stopped caring for the land of his ancestors. Now, the 81-year-old writer wants to pass on his family’s farming legacy to a new generation. He decided against teaming up with a large university agricultural program, and instead selected a small Catholic liberal arts college about an hour’s drive from Louisville, run by the Dominican Sisters of Peace.