Thursday, June 24, 2010
Author Pulls Personal Papers From UK In Protest
KENTUCKY...
One of Kentucky's best-known authors says he is severing his relationship with the University of Kentucky over the coal industry's sponsorship of an athletic dormitory.
Wendell Berry will pull many of his personal papers from the university archives to protest the naming of Wildcat Coal Lodge. Berry criticized his alma mater in a December letter, saying the naming of the basketball team's new dorm "puts an end" to his association with the school. The papers, which fill about 100 boxes, remain at the university while Berry prepares to move them to the Kentucky Historical Society in Frankfort.
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