Berryville Arkansas - Little Portion Hermitage

A minor: "knew that Talbot was a Franciscan monk who had been in the middle of the country folk-rock scene in the late '60s and early '70s with the band, Mason Proffit. I knew he was the founder and director (or 'Spiritual Father and Minister General') of the Brothers & Sisters of Charity and the Little Portion Hermitage and Little Portion Retreat & Training Center in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas.

What I did not know was that going through a divorce was instrumental in his decision to join a 'secular' Franciscan order in 1978, and that he remarried in 1989 with the blessing of the Catholic Church. (His wife, Viola, is a former nun and teacher.)

According to the Brothers & Sisters of Charity website, they are a Catholic based community made up of an integrated monastic expression of celibate brothers, celibate sisters, families and singles located at Little Portion Hermitage in Berryville, Arkansas, and a domestic expression of those world-wide in their own homes. This unique religious community is the only community of its type in the United States to be granted canonical status in the Catholic Church."