All hail Eva Lee Smith Cooper and all women who persevere.
Owning the Land
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.
The Fight Goes On
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.
The Impossible Dream Renewed
Disappointment and depression are hard to shake; they become a habit, protecting us from hopes that seem doomed.
A Brief History of the Kentucky Foundation for Women and Hopscotch House
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.
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…
More Hopscotch
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.
Letter to the Editor, The Courier-Journal, 2/19/2024
I am writing to protest the just announced sale of Hopscotch House by the Kentucky Foundation for Women.
Winter at Wolf Pen 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.
Hanging On
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.