The Sound of Bees Buzzing

A single line about the sound of buzzing bees, buried in a war story, and why it stayed with me long after I closed the book.
Books, folklore, history, traditions, and reflections exploring the relationship between bees, nature, place, and the people who live alongside them.

A single line about the sound of buzzing bees, buried in a war story, and why it stayed with me long after I closed the book.

I’ve never been to Wisconsin. And I’ve never harvested honey from wild bees. But I have read Little House in the Big Woods, the first of nine books in the Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder. The series was…