Sometimes a labor assignment can lead to a lifelong passion. For Tim Marema ’85, it also led to the creation of a rural news website that is read…
Frances ’22 When Frances ’22 looks out the window of her Fancy Gap, Va., home, there’s not much to see. “There are more cows living on my road…
When the late Alex Haley, author of “Roots,” took William Turner to the Museum of Appalachia in Norris, Tenn., a short distance from the Haley estate, both men…
Every other summer, the blue and white Berea College bus winds its way over a narrow, mountainous road in eastern Kentucky, rock wall to the left, nothing but…
Chase ’21 has worked in the Woodworking program with Student Craft for four years. His favorite piece to make is the Forest Stool. Photo by Tyler Rocquemore ’22…
Trudy Morrison Fd.’63 has a long history of dealing with microbes. Her father, Berea College biology professor Seth Gilkerson ’38, would send her out into the flora around…
The year 2020 promised to be gangbusters for the Historic Boone Tavern Hotel and Restaurant of Berea College. Patrick Huston, director of sales and marketing, was booking a…
Berea College was about three days ahead of the rest of the world in shutting down on-campus instruction due to the novel coronavirus pandemic in March 2020. The…
Jessie Ball duPont Fund To hear Mari Kuraishi, president of the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, describe her philanthropy’s mission is to catch a distinctly American ethos at work.…
Dr. Faramarz Ismail-Beigi When asked what was compelling about the mission of Berea College, Dr. Faramarz Ismail-Beigi ’62 offered a one-word answer: humanity. He went on, then, to reference a large carpet…