Mary complained to her father, Why do we always have to do things the hardest way? But she never considered moving away. Tanya, petite and cordial, led me into their kitchen, where I sat with Wendell at a round wooden table by a wall of books and a window overlooking a grapevine. But between his introduction and concluding two chapters, theres a revisionist history of slavery and its legacy that is largely unburdened by historical fact, laced with resentment about verbal slights flung at both the South and the rural U.S., and utterly incurious as to why, for instance, masses of Americans might find statues of Confederate generals objectionable and so be inspired to pull them down (Berry dismisses statue removal, as well as much of liberal politics, as simple political correctness). Black farmers contend with structural inequities that date back to Reconstruction. 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. I am damned doubtful that Ill cut anything like a hundred more pages out of this book. Yet, he added, if I keep finding so much to agree with in your complaints I ought to get the MS back and rewrite it from one end to the other.. 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. 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. 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? " Wendell Berry's Advice for a Cataclysmic Age .". Last October, Berry showed me the camp, asking only that I not say where it is. My town, once celebrated for its laid-back weirdness, is now a turbocharged tech megalopolis beingshaped by exiles from places like Silicon Valley. Back at Lanes Landing Farm, Berry said that it was time to feed the sheep, so we set out in his battered pickup. At the old Ford acreage, he showed me where the tobacco was taken after the harvest. Wendell Berry, advocate of the largely rural fundamentals that formed humanity before the Industrial Revolution, gets a big write-up in the Feb. 28 issue of The New Yorker, from none other than the magazines executive editor, Dorothy Wickenden. for its efforts to clean up waters polluted by toxic mining runoff. He is also a 2013 Fellow of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 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. Wendell explained that Lucie was named for his great-grandmother Lucinda Bowen Berry, the heroine of stories he told his children and grandchildren. 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. . But why pay any attention to the Krugmans, let alone the fetid Twitter swamp? The American Tobacco Company, a trust run by the tycoon JamesB. Duke, had forced the price of tobacco below the cost of production and transport. 0. 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. In the weeks before John Wayne Gacys scheduled execution, he was far from reconciled to his fate. He replied on the pages of a yellow legal pad: Dear Dorothy, Im hurrying to answer, and I hope you dont mind being written to with a pencil. Both slavery and the industrial world can be indefensible. 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. 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. 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. Yes, once, Berry said. I wrote him a noteDear Thief, if youre in trouble, dont tear this place up. 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. Seeking Clarity: Wendell Berry's New Book on Race By Katherine Dalton - October 5, 2022 1 Louisville, KY. Wendell Berry is 88, and age has not blurred the beauty of his prose or diminished his ability to take enormous pains on a topic on which he wants to speak clearly. Most U.S. farmers, regardless of scale, receive off-farm incomeworking other jobs to stay afloat. Berry made his name with The Unsettling of America, a furious polemic published in 1977. On top of one stack was a note Berry had made, and crossed out, about Marianne Moores poem What Are Years? Above a small safe, curling photographs were taped to a wall: Wallace Stegner, Ernest Gaines, Donald Hall and Jane Kenyon, Thomas Merton. To take just one recent example, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, who has always taken great delight in denigrating anyone from the country as ignorant, racist, and expendable, looked at social spending and concluded that since (Republican) rural America receives far more federal aid than it pays, all of us who live among woods and farm fields are lucky that our urban (Democratic) benefactors subsidize our lives at all. 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. John Berry became an attorney, married Virginia Erdman Perry, from Port Royal, and established himself as a prominent citizen of Henry County. They are actually profoundly revolutionary., Berry distrusts political movements, which, he writes, soon decline from any possibility of reasonable discourse to slogans, shouts, and a merely hateful contention in the capitols and streets. Still, he is a lifelong protester. In one story, Andy Catlett, Wendells fictional counterpart, tells a young helper, If you dont have people, a lot of people, whose hands can make order of whatever they pick up, youre going to be shit out of luck., I had always associated tobacco with lung cancer. From the very beginning, Berry had farming in his blood: Both sides of his family had been cultivating the same land for generations. 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. My family lived rather austerely in what Dan called exurban Connecticut, where he chopped wood for our fireplace and tended an organic vegetable garden. Ad Choices. 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. Bobbie Ann Mason, a Kentucky novelist who has known Berry for decades, e-mailed with me about his fictional universe of Port William. He posed for a photograph several years ago in front of the solar panels by his house, grinning and flashing a peace sign. Two years later, he said, North Point Press adopted me. North Point was a new venture in Berkeley, co-founded by Jack Shoemaker, a thirty-three-year-old former bookseller. He wanted to write an ambitious regional novel, but he was just stuck and depressed. At one point, Tanya suggested, Maybe you need to mature a bit. But his cussedness prevailed, and year by year the novel grew. Currently, a dozen farming families participate. Eventually, it became uninhabitable, and he pried off some poplar and walnut boards to use in building his own cabin, on higher grounda satisfactory nutshell of a house, he wrote. In 1967, he helped lead the Sierra Clubs successful effort to block the Red River Gorge Dam, in east-central Kentucky. 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. An essay by Toni Morrison: The Work You Do, the Person You Are.. It also would have been about 300 pages shorter. 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. Half a dozen well-sharpened pencils were lined up on the worktable, alongside small stacks of paper. We see a lot of young farmers with the dream and the drive, but without the starter money. She went on, Its about expectationsknowing not to expect a super-glamorous life, and being willing to appreciate what you do have. Craning my neck, I could imagine how the tobacco sticks, laden with heavy leaves, were once hung on the rafters to dry. She was outside, and one of the roosters was crowing raucously. A new era of strength competitions is testing the limits of the human body. C.S.A. 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. ". Both sides had slaveowners among their ancestors. Hed long since forgotten his prickly response to my fathers insistence that he cut those final hundred pages. Wendell recalled, He did me the great service of never allowing me to be satisfied with any work I showed him., Among the students at the university was Tanya Amyx, the daughter of an art professor and a textile artist, who was studying French and music. Although he has laid bare his entire life in print, he tightly guards his privacy. Berry has found a kind of salvationand a lifelong subjectin his stewardship of the land he farms in Kentucky. As a people, wherever we have been, we have never really intended to be. Much of the rest of the book is devoted to tracing out the conflict of two different tendencies that Berry sees as defining American history: the exploitative one, characterized by the pioneer, the trader, the land speculator, the investor, the tycoon and stock trader, and the nurturing one, exemplified by small, subsistence family farms. he Wendell Berry Farming Program, a tuition-free college degree program that started in 2019 graduated its inaugural cohort of 12 students on May 15, 2021 at. If the industrial world was built on slave labor, then its also true that the agrarian/slave culture of the South was dependent on Northern capital. For more than six decades, a steady breeze of earth-scented essays, novels, poetry, and short stories has tumbled from a small farm in Kentuckys Bluegrass region, where the writer Wendell Berry, now 88 years old, has made his home. It cannot humble itself. And this one practically lived right down the road from you. The novelist Colum McCann told The Atlantic in 2017 that Berrys poems have a real twinkle in their eyes in the face of a dark world. He recited The Mad Farmers Love Song, which features one of his favorite figures in the canon: O when the worlds at peaceand every man is freethen will I go down unto my love.O and I may go downseveral times before that. By Dorothy Wickenden February 21, 2022 Berry has. 612 S. Main St., Suite 203Hopkinsville, KY 42240270-484-1145. 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. In the early winter, he takes some ewes to the steep lots near the house, where they serve as lawnmowers, then brings them back to the barn for lambing. For her, it completes a cycle of nearly 60 years. Like Port Royal, it is a vest-pocket farm town on the west side of the Kentucky River. And it named Wendell Berry the recipient of its 2022 Henry Hope Reed Award. Whats curious to me is that, once started, youre interested, youre into it, youre doing your work, and youre happy, he said. Today (August 5th) marks the birthday of Kentucky farmer-poet Wendell Berry We honor the occasion with seven of our favorite Wendell Berry poems . 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.. We are now reduced to one significant choice, Berry writes in the books final paragraph. The small farmers of the burley beltincluding parts of Kentucky, Missouri, Indiana, Ohio, and West Virginiasaw themselves as part of a centuries-old culture that produced the most labor-intensive agricultural product in the world. When Berry moved to the country with his wife, Tanya, he gave her a privy that never aspired so high as to have a door.. I sat in the passenger seat, resting my feet on a chainsaw, one of Berrys few labor-saving devices. He is also a 2013 Fellow of The American Academy . Tanya, who grew up in a bohemian, academic family in Lexington, is the pianist for the choir. Berry prized his seminars with Stegner, whom he considers the Wests foremost storyteller, historian, critic, conservator and loyal citizen. In a Jefferson Lecture in 2012, he quoted Stegners description of Americans as one of two basic types, boomers and stickers. Boomers are those who pillage and run, who make a killing and end up on Easy Street. Stickers are those who settle, and love the life they have made and the place they have made it in. They are placed people, in Berrys termforever attached to the look of the sky, the smell of native plants, and the vernacular of home. But it also offers glimpses of his next book and looks at his legacy, which includes The Berry Center, which promotes prosperous, well-tended farms serving and supporting healthy local communities and the Wendell Berry Farming Program of Vermonts Sterling College, which offers a tuition-free college degree in sustainable family farming. Learning / August 7, 2015 January 20, 2022 / Wendell Berry. Leah Bayens, the programs dean, told me that the students spend much of their time working outside. They aimed to convince the Governor to withdraw from a lawsuit that the Kentucky Coal Association had filed against the E.P.A. Berry pointed out a youthful shot of his wife, Tanya, with cropped, wavy hair, striding along a hillside by their house. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. and strives to provide the most comprehensive catalog of thought leaders and industry experts to consider for . I remembered a line from The Long-Legged House: One bright warm day in November it was so quiet that I could hear the fallen leaves ticking, like a light rain, as they dried and contracted, scraping their points and edges against each other., The place was so inviting, I wondered if anyone had ever broken inseeking, perhaps, a little food and a furtive nights rest. 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. Wendell wrote to Dan in June, 1969, about The Long-Legged House: Im glad you told me the book hasnt yet sold 2,000 copies. And since, in his view, the Civil War was a battle between industrialism and agrarianism, and since he has long held that agrarianism is the path to a virtuous human place on earth, the history he ends up telling feels uncomfortably like Gone With the Wind. The headquarters of the Berry Center occupy a capacious white brick Federal-style house on South Main Street. 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. 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.. It's the use of the word abandon that puzzles me. 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. Author: Dr. Brent Laytham Created Date: 6/22/2022 12:40:38 PM . Lee said, I cannot raise my hand against my birthplace, my home, my children, Berry writes. As comfortable with a hoe as with a pen, he has been one of the few intellectuals reminding us that country life is far more complex than its caricature, that industrial progress is nothing of the sort, that living in the country and working with the land can be a path to redemption, that living in the country and working with the land is the path to redemption. In the long-legged house, a remote cabin with no plumbing or electricity, Berry has written fifty-two books, during breaks from farmwork and teaching. On Febru. All rights reserved. For me, that was a happy return, Wendell wrote. And so youve made your maul. Finding their camp, she reached for Johns hand and took him home. In the centers library, Mary said that the project began a decade ago, when she went to talk with her father about how the local-food movement, so popular among urbanites, wasnt doing enough to support small farmers in their region. But Berry also had books on the brain, and he left the farm in Henry County, first for the University of Kentucky, where he studied English, eventually earning a masters degree, and then for Stanford, as a Wallace Stegner fellow in the creative writing program that Stegner founded and which would turn out some of the 20th centurys most important place-based writers. The best of movies, TV, books, music, and more, delivered to your inbox. Although Berry is enviably prolific, he doesnt find writing easy. 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. The sticks were jobbed upright into the ground at even intervals in stickrows between rows of tobacco. A bakery up the road employs recovering opioid addicts. After visiting Berry at his Kentucky farm, Wickenden wrote, From this sliver of vanishing America, Berry cultivates the unfashionable virtues of neighborliness and compassion. School held little interest for Wendell. and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. I really loved taking this for a three-week joyride in my backpack., Cartoon by Sophie Lucido Johnson and Sammi Skolmoski, The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Womens Rights. 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. For her, it completes a cycle of nearly 60 years. Previously aired October 4, 2013. Abandon, as in love or sleep,holds them to their way,clear, in the ancient faith:what we need is here. Dan and Wendell shared a love of the land, a droll wit, and a punctilious commitment to proper usage. Addressing political disagreements in a solidly red state, Smith said, These are people with deep concerns about community survival, even in places thought of as full of reactionaries. Wendellrangy, with a slight writers stoopstood on the porch, holding the door open with a wide smile. T he name Adrian Bell will be unfamiliar to the great majority of American readers, and even in his native England he seems to be somewhat forgotten among the general reading public, even though his books were quite popular from the . A few hours west of the decapitated mountains of Appalachia is the part of Kentucky known as the Bluegrass region. Wendell Berry: A review of The Need to Be Whole. He grew particularly close to Ernest Gaines, another Stegner Fellow. Wendell Berry was warned. 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