The Memory of Old Jack
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Host Bill Goodman and a panel of readers discuss Wendell Berry's inspiring chronicle of Jack Beechum—a man who has spent a lifetime close to the land. A 1999 KET production.
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Hymnody of Earth
Hymnody of Earth
This KET production sets the poetry of Kentucky writer and farmer Wendell Berry to music by Malcolm Dalglish, as a chorus of young people sing about a deep love for the Earth and the people and creatures who inhabit it. The performance features the Bloomington Youth Chorus, the Lexington Children's Chorus, the Anglicantors, Dalglish (on hammer dulcimer), and Glen Velez on percussion.
Living by Words
Living by Words
Kentucky writers Bobbie Ann Mason, Wendell Berry, Ed McClanahan, Gurney Norman, and James Baker Hall read from their works and talk about their long-time friendships, their creative writing teachers at the University of Kentucky, and their relationships with Kentucky. The joint reading featured in the program was recorded at UK's Singletary Center for the Arts on October 18, 2001. A 2002 KET production.
In the American Way
Kentucky Time Capsule
Looks back at urban renewal in Louisville in the 1970s, including the destruction that was required to make way for new development, and at the opposition voices who argued that "quality of life" could not be measured by concrete. Prominent among them was Kentucky farmer and writer Wendell Berry.
Look & See: Wendell Berry's Kentucky - Trailer
Independent Lens
Look & See: Wendell Berry’s Kentucky is a portrait of the changing landscapes and shifting values of rural America through the voice of writer, farmer, and activist Wendell Berry. Centered in his native Henry County, Kentucky, Look & See is an elegy to a lost way of life that was once the bedrock of America--the culture of agriculture.
Look & See - Farmers Are Not a Component of a Machine - Clip
Independent Lens
In this excerpt from the Independent Lens film Look & See: Wendell Berry's Kentucky, small farmers in Kentucky talk about the challenges--financial and otherwise--of staying afloat in today's world. Interwoven with this is a look at how in the '70s writer Wendell Berry butted heads with US Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz, who was a major proponent of the industrialization of farming.
Encore: Wendell Berry: Poet and Prophet
Moyers & Company
In a rare television interview, environmental legend and writer Wendell Berry leaves his Kentucky farm for an inspiring conversation. Also this week the short documentary Dance of the Honey Bees.
Wendell Berry: Poet and Prophet
Moyers & Company
In a rare television interview, environmental legend and writer Wendell Berry leaves his Kentucky farm for an inspiring conversation. Also this week the short documentary Dance of the Honey Bees and Bill Moyers shares his frustrations on the government shutdown.
Morris Grubbs (#719)
One to One
Morris Grubbs, assistant dean in the Office of Graduate Academic Services at the University of Kentucky, is a former student of writer and conservationist Wendell Berry. Grubbs discusses his book Conversations with Wendell Berry and the national award Berry received from the National Endowment for the Humanities this spring.
Muslims of Hamtramck, Michigan; Wendell Berry Farming Center
Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly
Once staunchly Polish Catholic, this community outside Detroit is now the only US city with a Muslim-majority city council; Kentucky poet and farmer Wendell Berry is passing on his family’s farming legacy in partnership with a small Dominican college.
Wendell Berry Farming Program
Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly
Farming is often about homecoming, explains Mary Berry, executive director of the Berry Center. “It doesn’t mean [farmers] have to go to the place they were born,” she says. “The concept of homecoming is simply to take root some place and care about a place, not just for a short amount of time, but forever.”
Wendell Berry
Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly
Renowned essayist, farmer, poet, and conservationist Wendell Berry says the Gulf of Mexico oil spill demonstrates that "we're putting too much at stake" in the way we go after oil and mineral resources.
Public Memorials; Carter County Caves; Wooldridge Monuments
Kentucky Life
At two recently erected public memorials, Kentuckians can honor and remember those from Flight 5191 and 9/11; the Carter County Caves have served several purposes including mining for saltpeter for the War of 1812; Kentucky authors Bobbie Ann Mason and Wendell Berry illuminate the stories behind one of the country's most unusual grave sites, and Dave visits Letcher County's Oven Fork Mercantile.
Animals in Agriculture
The Farmer and the Foodie
Maggie and Lindsey highlight the importance of draft animals in agriculture. They learn team driving and animal husbandry at the Wendell Berry Farming Program in Henry County and go horseback riding at Foxhollow Farm. Recipes include winter squash and potato gratin and chimichurri sauce.
Programs
Hymnody of Earth
This KET production sets the poetry of Kentucky writer and farmer Wendell Berry to music by Malcolm Dalglish, as a chorus of young people sing about a deep love for the Earth and the people and creatures who inhabit it. The performance features the Bloomington Youth Chorus, the Lexington Children's Chorus, the Anglicantors, Dalglish (on hammer dulcimer), and Glen Velez on percussion.
Living by Words
Kentucky writers Bobbie Ann Mason, Wendell Berry, Ed McClanahan, Gurney Norman, and James Baker Hall read from their works and talk about their long-time friendships, their creative writing teachers at the University of Kentucky, and their relationships with their native state. The joint reading featured in the program was recorded at UK's Singletary Center for the Arts on October 18, 2001. A 2002 KET production.
Wendell Berry's The Hurt Man
Henry County farmer and writer Wendell Berry reads The Hurt Man, a story from his collection That Distant Land. Set in 1888, the story focuses on 5-year-old Matt Feltner as he discovers for the first time that there is such a thing as loss in the world-something he will learn more about as an adult. A 2003 KET production taped at the Good Foods Market and Cafe in Lexington.
Wendell Berry's Thoughts in the Presence of Fear
With film footage of rural Kentucky as a backdrop, author Wendell Berry expresses his thoughts in the days following the September 11 attack.