The Bookstore at The Berry Center

09/11/2026

ALL FALL FESTIVAL POSTPONED TO 9/26 BECAUSE OF WEATHER

Friends, an apology firstly for bombarding you with emails this week. We try to keep communications to a slower pace, but with tomorrow's impending thunderstorms we are going to have to postpone our ALL FALL FESTIVAL to SEPTEMBER 26TH. We are truly sorry if this is an inconvenience for you, but out of concern for our vendors, volunteers, and you, our dear friends and guests, we think it is best to push back a couple of weeks. We hope you will join us then for some big fun and good fellowship. We've even got a few little extra surprises that should be ready by then, so don't miss it. Our updated poster is below, so share and share alike, friends. Our updated poster is below, so share and share alike, friends. We'll see you on the 26th, and don't forget to check our website berrycenter.org for more great events coming up, like visits from bestselling authors like Ethan Tapper Ethan Tapper and the Commonwealth's own 'Book Woman' herself.

And as a small consolation, The Bookstore at The Berry Center will be open as usual tomorrow from 10:00am-5:00pm and we welcome anyone who would like to drop by and say hello.

09/11/2026

Friends, we cannot thank you enough for the kind words, remembrances, stories, and good feeling that have come to us in the mail, e-mail, and social media. All of these have been a comfort to us during this sad time, and we would be so happy to hear more of them.

As Mary said in our last video, we continue on in our work. We are still here every day to do what we can to spread the good word for our rural places. As she also noted, the family has elected for a small private funeral service, but we will be following up in the upcoming months with a big memorial to celebrate Wendell and his lifetime of good work. We promise to be in touch about that event as it comes together, and you should hear about it first from this mailing list.

Until then, we hope to offer a few more opportunities to be in community and celebrate Wendell and the good work. We hope that you will join us, friends, in carrying that good work ever forward into the future.

The first of these are our 2026 Wendell Berry Lecture ft. Dr. Ellen Davis on the 10th and our ALL Fall Festival (and Best Of Henry County Bake Off!) this coming Saturday, September 12, 11am-2pm EST.

We'd love to see you there for either or both. At ALL FALL We'll be sharing FREE copies of our 2026 AND 2027 ALL picks, including Wendell's The Unsettling of America, and sharing more about how you can bring this important book to your people and place. As importantly, we'll be in fellowship with one another and taking a little ease with our community, spending a little time shoring up the bonds of friendship and Membership, and taking some time to remember Wendell together as well. The food, art, games, and crafts will be great, and the company will be even better. More information on ALL FALL, our Best of Henry County Bake Off, and our lecture are attached here. Our immense gratitude, Friends, for your interest, your support, and your own good work.

As always, you can learn more at berrycenter.org or get in touch at [email protected]. Every good wish to you and yours from your friends at The Berry Center.

09/11/2026

Friends, we just can’t thank you enough for your kindness and your generosity in this season, as the photos, the stories, the memories just keep rolling in from all over the world. So too has your support, not only financial but the offers of help, the investments of time and talent, all of it has been so powerful and moving. We will be thanking individually everyone who has contributed after Wendell’s passing, of course, but we also wanted to take a moment to talk about the good work here.

We have been blessed with a Membership which values the same agrarian spirit, the same work of the land that Wendell has written about taking up from his parents, and theirs, back further than anyone can remember, the work of good care for your people and your place. The support of this Membership has allowed us to carry on that good work here in this place, and to broadcast it into the world, sharing the results of our successes (and our failures!) with others who have picked up this effort and carried it forward in time in their own home places, and being shared with in return.

Today, as our friends at the Community Foundation of Louisville will tell you, is one of the biggest days for philanthropy in our region, and we are so thankful to them for organizing and building the excitement for local giving. If you live in our neck of the woods and have been thinking about how to honor the memory of someone like Wendell, telling a friend about the good work, or even just taking a little time to reflect on one of his poems or essays and then contributing to The Berry Center or any of the hundreds of worthy local organizations represented over at giveforgoodlouisville.org, today is a great day for it.

With all our gratitude and every good wish,
Your friends at The Berry Center.

(And extra thanks for sharing photos Seed Savers Exchange .renkl )

09/05/2026

Join us in community next Saturday, September 12, 11am-2pm at The Berry Center in New Castle!

We are welcoming folks for our ALL Fall Festival next weekend, and we'd love to see you here! You can get your copy of the the 2026 ALL book, Margaret Renkl's Late Migrations, and a copy of the 2027 ALL selection, the 50th Anniversary edition of Wendell's The Unsettling of America.

If you're resident of Henry County, consider participating in the Best of Henry County Bake-Off! This annual contest is a favored tradition, and it's a tremendously tasty contribution to the festival. Add your entry to the table! Contest details included below.

There will be other good eats, live music, local arts and crafts, and kids activities. Not to mention the general nourishment of being together. We'll be so glad to see you next Saturday!

09/01/2026

Friends,
The Berry Center and Berry family are heartbroken to announce the death of Wendell Erdman Berry, writer and farmer of Port Royal, Henry County, Kentucky. He passed suddenly and peacefully at home yesterday afternoon, August 31st. His work continues here, and in every place where people aim to live according to nature’s measure, on and with and of their beloved home place.
Please help us respect the privacy and the wishes of the family by directing all correspondence, remembrances, inquiries, and good wishes to The Berry Center at [email protected] or by post ℅ The Berry Center, PO Box 582, New Castle KY 40050. The family has asked that in lieu of flowers please consider a donation to The Berry Center or a like-missioned organization doing the good work in your home place in Wendell’s memory.

08/25/2026

Happy Pub Day to the 50th Anniversary Edition of The Unsetting of America (with a new forward by Wendell Berry)! We're shipping out preorders today and it's not too late for you to add your order to our packing list. Use promo code SUMMERREADING at check out and get 20% off your order. Link is in the comments 😍

08/22/2026

The Bookstore at The Berry Center will be closed today (Saturday 8/22). We are so sorry for the inconvenience and will look forward to seeing you when we reopen Tuesday!

08/14/2026

Friends, we're looking forward to having Professor Ellen Davis with us next month for our annual Wendell Berry Lecture. Tickets can be purchased through the link in the comments. Hope to see you there!

Friends, we are so pleased to invite you to our 2026 WENDELL BERRY LECTURE, this year presented by Ellen Davis, renowned theologian and the Amos Ragan Kearns Distinguished Professor of Bible and Practical Theology at Duke University. Dr. Davis will be joining us to talk about her study of Western religious practices and their agrarian roots. We are also happy to report that she will be speaking on and signing her book: Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture: An Agrarian Reading of the Bible, which is a perennial favorite here at The Bookstore at The Berry Center and on our own shelves.

Join us on September 10th right here in beautiful New Castle, Kentucky for what promises to be a thought provoking evening with one of the country's foremost religious scholars.

You can find out more at berrycenter.org/events or follow the link below to reserve your tickets today, AND AS A BONUS, should you desire to learn a little more, our colleagues at The Berry Center Farm & Forest Institute are hosting a one-day seminar with Rev. John Inscore Essick of on Dr. Davis' work immediately before the event, with a guaranteed seat included in the bargain. If you'd like to learn more about this study opportunity, head over to berrycenterfarmandforest.org

We'll see you there, friends!

08/05/2026

Happy birthday, Wendell. We love you and are grateful.

I tremble with gratitude
for my children and their children
who take pleasure in one another.
In our dinners together, the dead
enter and pass among us
in living love and in memory.
And so the young are taught.

From LEAVINGS
https://www.berrycenterbookstore.com/.../leavings.../1839..