Berea

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in Kentucky at Berea.

We had one over here at Center for the Arts.

Mm-hmm.

The continuance of slavery was recognized and supported by the Constitution and the law, and upon the abolition of slavery, the American Negro was in reality, and should have been in fact, a national ward, end quote.

The buildings of the colored Berea are finally in course of erection in Shelby County, Kentucky.

They will cost one hundred thousand dollars and be placed upon a five hundred acre farm.

The school will be known as Lincoln Institute.

And, um, so we reconnected.

I started supplying materials for his classes and then, uh, eventually went and helped him teach a class at Kelly Mehler's school in Berea.

Nice.

And, uh, that was a lot of fun.

The last one that gives you a ride, were they coming to Kentucky? Were they coming here? Do you remember how that went?

They were going to Berea.

Okay.

Where did they pick you up at? At the

Okay.

So you leave Louisville from Love's.

You get a ride and you said they were coming to where? Berea?

Berea.

The Persecuted Bereans There is another call connected with Kentucky which we wish to bring before our friends.

At a village in that state called Berea, situated in Madison County, a little band of Christian men and women have been pursuing their useful labors for some years past.

They had validly held anti-slavery sentiments, but this was the beginning and end of their offending.

They possessed a farm and sawmill, etc., and had established a flourishing school.

One of the latter has since returned to Kentucky to bury his youngest little boy in a graveyard attached to one of the churches there.

He was enabled to preach to the people who assembled on the occasion, but was not allowed to remain in his native state.

Another of the exiles ventured to go back to Berea, but this immediately led to an outbreak of popular feeling, for his sawmill was set on fire by the mob and presently destroyed.

The exiles are consequently still in Ohio or wandering about in search of employment.

And yeah, I think, uh, you know, maybe the second annual.

I don't think I made it to the first one when you were still doing it out in Berea, but I remember getting to the second one and, uh, the...

Yeah, the second one at Homegrown Hideaways, and I think I've only missed maybe one or two since.

Yeah, that sounds about right.

It was a faith-based education.

Yeah, I remember when my sister went there, really appreciating the synergies between Anderson and Berea College, which is where I'm from in Berea, Kentucky.

And it's similar.

Faith-based, everyone has to work, work ethic is a big deal.

Tore our portable garage apart, got the bikes all set.

Now I'm just packing up the rig itself in an effort to just be ready to go after Berea.

So after you and I go rock the roads for two solid days, technically, I think you and I are going to be rocking roads for about four days.

Mm-hmm.

You go to a mountainous region and you're limited to these are the roads and we've engineered them as such to be exactly what they need to be for their use.

And even then they're just a playground for motorcycling.

But you go to some place like Berea where it's like Rooting, tooting, I got to get my moonshine to the next day.

You know, it's like they're hiding old school, old school.

Um, just excellent.

Eastern Kentucky, uh, Berea, Midway, Centre, Transylvania.

I mean, and the list goes on.

Georgetown.

But Berea has stepped up to the plate, Jack, and are, is now offering fully funded no loan degrees for every student.

Wow.

And that's a, that's a big game changer.

Oh, yeah