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Sallie's posts tagged ‘Wolf Pen Branch Mill Farm’

The One Hundredth Anniversary

April 2nd, 2025 by Sallie Bingham in Kentucky Leave a Comment

Black and white photo of Wolf Pen Mill possibly 1920s

All hail Eva Lee Smith Cooper and all women who persevere.

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Owning the Land

December 7th, 2024 by Sallie Bingham in Kentucky 3 Comments

Photo of a buck in tall grass

Even before I decided, years ago, to put the 420 acres of blessed open space into conservation easements, I felt the wild fields and thin woods had long since belonged to the creatures that have always lived there.

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The Fight Goes On

September 15th, 2024 by Sallie Bingham in Philanthropy 4 Comments

Photo of Hopscotch House

I would be most grateful for your responses, both from you who enjoyed Hopscotch during its long history and you who might want to avail yourselves of it in the future.

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The Impossible Dream Renewed

August 7th, 2024 by Sallie Bingham in Politics, New Mexico 1 Comment

Construction worker at Apache Mesa Ranch in 2012

Disappointment and depression are hard to shake; they become a habit, protecting us from hopes that seem doomed.

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A Brief History of the Kentucky Foundation for Women and Hopscotch House

April 3rd, 2024 by Sallie Bingham in Kentucky 5 Comments

Photo of the Hopscotch House, Louisville, KY

Having long learned… the effect of art created by women on the lives of other women… I decided to design a foundation that would support women artists in Kentucky working as feminists for social change.

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Northern Bobwhite Quail

March 24th, 2024 by Sallie Bingham in Kentucky 1 Comment

Photo of a male and female Northern Bobwhite Quail

It may seem strange that in the midst of the problems with Hopscotch and the Kentucky Foundation for Women, I’m choosing to write about the Bobwhite Quail. There are two reasons…

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More Hopscotch

March 20th, 2024 by Sallie Bingham in Women, Kentucky 5 Comments

Wolf Pen Branch Mill Farm

I can’t go into detail about our plans to preserve Hopscotch; this is complicated legally, and if successful, would be a landmark case, protecting other donors who find that their gifts have been abused by the not-for-profit they trusted.

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Letter to the Editor, The Courier-Journal, 2/19/2024

February 21st, 2024 by Sallie Bingham in Kentucky 1 Comment

Photo of the Hopscotch House, Louisville, KY

I am writing to protest the just announced sale of Hopscotch House by the Kentucky Foundation for Women.

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Winter at Wolf Pen Farm

November 19th, 2023 by Sallie Bingham in Women, Kentucky 4 Comments

Sunset at Wolf Pen Branch Mill Farm

It was never my intention to create a private estate, and it gives me great satisfaction to know that River Fields organizes seasonal wildflower walks at the farm, and that a generation of children is growing up in my three rental houses.

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Hanging On

June 11th, 2023 by Sallie Bingham in Kentucky 5 Comments

Photo of the Wolf Pen Mill at Wolf Pen Mill Farm

I’m visiting my old farm, Wolf Pen Branch Mill, ten miles east of Louisville, Kentucky for a few days, and find myself appalled, as always, by the spread of development.

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Visiting Linda Stein

Visiting Linda Stein

March 3rd, 2025
Back on October 28th, 2008, I visited artist Linda Stein's studio in New York City and tried on a few of her handmade suits of armor.
On Memoir and My Writing Memoir/Writing History Workshops

On Memoir and My Writing Memoir/Writing History Workshops

February 11th, 2024
I think memoir writing is a much more serious task than it's often considered to be. It's not informal, it's not casual. It really is the writing of

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Rebecca Reynolds & Salie Bingham at SOMOS

November 8th, 2024
This event was recorded November 1, 2024 in Taos, NM at SOMOS Salon & Bookshop by KCEI Radio, Red River/Taos and broadcast on November 8, 2024.
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Taken by the Shawnee Reading

September 1st, 2024
This reading took place at The Church of the Holy Faith in Santa Fe, New Mexico in August of 2024.

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Spring is full of moods here in New Mexico... I keep waiting grumpily for a spell of warm, settled weather. But not my friends the ravens. This is the weather they adore. "My Friends the Ravens": https://buff.ly/a2YelNT #Birds #BirdWatching #Hiking #TheCityDifferent

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At the farmer’s market yesterday, a family band called High Lonesome Highway performed. I don’t know if they write their own music but the wailing heart-broken sounds of old mountain melodies brought #Kentucky here to the high desert https://buff.ly/mhDqow3 #SantaFeNM

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Sallie Bingham's latest is a captivating account of ancestor's ordeal
Pasatiempo, The Santa Fe New Mexican

“I felt she was with me” during the process of writing the book, Bingham says. “I felt I wasn’t writing anything that would have seemed to her false or unreal.”

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