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 was a freelance columnist with The Daily Memphian from 2018 to 2025.
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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