Conaway: In the end, there’s honey
One of the Thistle and Bee keepers checks the health of a hive during the honey harvest by Thistle and Bee clients and volunteers at St. Columba Episcopal Conference Center in Bartlett. Thistle and Bee is a local non-profit that assists victims of sex trafficking and prostitution by training them to be beekeepers. (Jim Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
Dan Conaway
Dan Conaway is a lifelong Memphian, fascinated and frustrated with his city, but still in love. A columnist since 2010, his distinguished advertising career has branded ribs in the Rendezvous and ducks in The Peabody, pandas in the zoo and Grizzlies in the NBA. Stories in Memphis tend to write themselves. He’s helped a few along. Two book collections of his columns have been published.
All across Memphis, like the hives of Thistle & Bee, people are hard at work to bring fellow Memphians back from the ravages of poverty, abuse, neglect and the companions of those conditions — crime, addiction and exploitation.
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