Wendell and Mary Berry bequest farming legacy to small Catholic college
The family of writer and farmer Wendell Berry has lived among the hay fields and rolling knobs of central Kentucky for nine generations. Now, the 81-year-old writer wants to pass on his farming legacy.
He has selected a small Catholic liberal arts college about an hour’s drive from Louisville, run by the Dominican Sisters of Peace. The sisters have been part of this community since 1822, teaching and farming on their own 550-acre stretch of land. That impressed Wendell Berry’s daughter, Mary Berry.
“When I went to St. Catharine’s, their first question to me was not about my father’s reputation and how it might serve their desire to raise funds,” Mary Berry said.
