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The Berry Center Executive Director Mary Berry and her brother, Den Berry, were raised by their parents, Wendell and Tanya Berry, at Lanes Landing Farm in Henry County, Kentucky from the time she was six years old. She attended Henry County public schools and graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1981. She farmed for a living in Henry County starting out in dairy farming, growing Burley tobacco, and later diversifying to organic vegetables, pastured poultry and grass fed beef.
Mary is married to Trimble County, Kentucky farmer, Steve Smith, who started the first Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farming endeavor in the state of Kentucky. If daughters Katie Johnson, Virginia Aguilar and Tanya Smith choose to stay in Henry County, they will be the ninth generation of their family to live and farm there.
Virginia Aguilar is the ninth generation of her family to be raised in Henry County, Kentucky. After graduating from Bellarmine University in 2007 with an honors degree in history, she became a founding faculty member at Louisville Classical Academy where she taught history, ancient languages, art, and served as middle school principal.
In 2016, after eight years of teaching, Virginia joined The Berry Center where she currently serves as director of the Agrarian Cultural Center and Bookstore at The Berry Center. In her time at The Berry Center she has overseen the development of the Agrarian Literary League, a nationally recognized rural reading program, and the annual Kentucky Arts and Letters Day. In 2018 Virginia and her husband Ben were able to move home to Henry County and they welcomed their daughter, Lucinda Dee, in the spring of 2020.
Leah grew up in Louisville but has called rural Kentucky home since she graduated high school. She is one of the newest citizens of Henry County along with her partner, Bruce Bryant, a cabinetmaker and part-time teacher, and their son, Burley.
Michele Guthrie grew up in Lexington, Kentucky, went to the University of Kentucky and graduated with a degree in Special Education in 1973. She moved to Louisville after graduation and taught in the Louisville City School System, later the Jefferson County Public Schools. She married Jim Guthrie in 1975 and soon afterwards they purchased the farm in Henry County near the Kentucky River where they have lived now for thirty-eight years. They have three children, Joe, Rosalie and Paige.
In the summer of 2011 she was hired by The Berry Center as an archivist and librarian to curate an agrarian collection of books and materials and to organize, catalog and preserve the records of the Berry Family particularly as pertains to their work in public service, culture and agriculture, and advocacy for farmers and land-conserving communities in our state and the country.
Ben Aguilar joined The Berry Center as Director of Operations in 2018 after many years of teaching and technical production in academic settings in Louisville, as well as agricultural work in rural Kentucky. He was raised in Lexington, Kentucky and holds a B.A. and M.S. from Bellarmine University, and is glad to be working on the ground for people who work with the ground.
Ben is the editor of For The Hog Killing, 1979: Photographs by Tanya Amyx Berry (University Press of Kentucky, 2019), and hopes to document and preserve more of the agrarian history of the country going forward.
Katherine Dalton Boyer has worked for magazines in New York and Illinois and written for publications ranging from the Wall Street Journal to the University Bookman to the online magazine frontporchrepublic.com. After moving back to her home state of Kentucky in the 1990s, she ran a communications business for clients that included Rohm and Haas and GE Appliances. She has contributed to the books Wendell Berry: Life and Work and the forthcoming Localism in the Mass Age: A Front Porch Republic Manifesto. She and her family live in Louisville.
John Logan Brent lives with his wife Lori, and children Gracie, Morgan, and Jake on their 160 acre farm in Turners Station, KY. John Logan has many passions, at the top of the list are his faith, family, farm, and community.
At a very young age John Logan discovered a passion for raising and growing things. Along with this passion, he developed a deep love for the people, places, and agrarian culture of his Henry County Home. In 2003, he was elected to his first term as Henry County Judge/Executive. At that time he was the youngest person in the state to hold the position. He currently is his fourth term of service to his community. He and his family raise tobacco, cattle, and hay on several family small farms. They have been selling finished beef off the farm to individuals for a number of years. After years of driving long distances for farmstead meat processing, John Logan was very involved in bringing Trackside Butcher Shoppe to the community in 2015.
John Logan graduated from Henry County High School, the University of Kentucky, and attended a post graduate program at Harvard University. In addition to the Berry Center Board, John Logan serves on the Baptist Hospital Lagrange Board, the United Citizens Bank Board, the County Extension Board, and he chairs the Tri-County Community Action Agency Board.
Christina (Christy) Brown is originally from Frederick, Maryland and has lived in Louisville, Kentucky since 1968 when she married Owsley Brown II. Christy is a proud mother of three and grandmother of nine. She co-founded the Center for Interfaith Relations in 1985 and went on to launch the first US Festival of Faiths in Louisville. She believes passionately in the potential of faith communities to effect positive change by working together, at the same time celebrating their commonalities and differences.
Bonnie Cecil was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. She taught primary-aged students in Jefferson County Public Schools for thirty years. During those years she developed a personal style and curriculum that went beyond classroom walls. Students took frequent field trips to parks, nature preserves, libraries, museums, theatres and community events, and participated in two three-day camping trips yearly.
Along with her husband, John Grant, Ms. Cecil owns and operates a 200-acre ridgetop farm in Henry County, Kentucky. In addition to tending a kitchen garden and watching their flock of chickens instead of TV, they raise cheviot sheep for market.
She is president of Tallgrass Farm Foundation (www.tallgrassfarmfoundation.org)
and in 2021 created the Tallgrass Endowment Fund at the University of Kentucky
College of Agriculture, Food, and Sustainability.
Steve Douglas is a Henry County farmer and businessman, and the proud father and grandfather of farmers and future farmers. After graduating from Eastern Kentucky University, he began an extensive background in financial services, serving in various leadership roles at agriculturally focused lending firms and in the banking industry. He brought this extensive experience to serve The Berry Center first as volunteer bookkeeping support and adviser, and now as interim treasurer.
Lori Collins-Hall is the interim president at Sterling College. Lori has spent twenty-five years in higher education as a scholar-practitioner, engaging students in transformative learning opportunities and high-impact community engagement, including community-based service-learning, coalition building, and work-based education. Prior to her roles in administration, Lori was a tenured faculty member, department chair, and assessment coordinator. As a Teagle Scholar she did extensive work examining pedagogical models of experiential learning and assessment, with particular attention to small liberal arts schools.
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