We reached out to two recent graduates and asked how Berea has impacted their lives. These are their responses. “Berea has given me opportunities that I never thought…
Long before bookmobiles or Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, Berea College librarians were steering covered wagons into rural mountain towns, bringing books to communities that lacked this precious resource.…
In the summer of 1968, following graduation from Berea College, I had a full scholarship to attend graduate school at Johns Hopkins University. A Ford Foundation staff member…
When Margaret Cox ’72 thought about her future as a child, it didn’t involve owning a strawberry farm. However, it would turn out that she would find her…
Garett ’21 A conversation with Berea College senior, Garett, is sprinkled with stories: stories about family and place, stories that serve to connect people. Garett grew up in…
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…
What began as a garden on a couple of acres in 1871 has expanded to a 500-acre farm with beef cattle, hogs, poultry, field crops, horticulture crops and…
A-Nya ’23 Even though A-Nya ’23 grew up in Dunbar, W. Va., for most of her life she didn’t really see herself as Appalachian. “I felt dissociated from…
In 1870, Henry was born into a humble and hardworking family in Madison County, Ky. He came to Berea College in 1889 and after nearly 10 years he…