The buzz on honeybees presented at OSHM

  • BeeCo Apiaries’ Mary Lacksen (left) and her daughter-in-law Caroline Lacksen exhibit a live honeybee hive during their visit to Eatonton’s Old School History Museum last Sunday. CONTRIBUTED
    BeeCo Apiaries’ Mary Lacksen (left) and her daughter-in-law Caroline Lacksen exhibit a live honeybee hive during their visit to Eatonton’s Old School History Museum last Sunday. CONTRIBUTED
This story features the buzz of the bees. Or at least as much as Georgia master beekeeper Mary Lacksen could pack into an hour’s presentation during the Old School History Museum’s most recent installment of its Sunday-at-the-Museum lecture series. Lacksen and her daughter Katherine run BeeCo Apiaries (beecoapiaries.com) on the family farm near Sparta. Her journey into beekeeping began about 15…

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