Bill Mares has been a reporter-photographer, state legislator and high school teacher. Raised in Texas and educated at Harvard, he has authored or co-authored 16 books on subjects ranging from the Marine Corps to desert travel, from war memorials to Vermont humor.

He has kept bees for 45 years and has been president of both the Vermont Beekeepers Association and the Eastern Apicultural Society. With Ross Conrad and others, he will publish in July 2019 a history of beekeeping in Vermont, The Land of Milk and Honey. He has been married to Chris Hadsel for 46 years; they have two sons.

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Talks by Bill Mares

• Bees Besieged: A History of Beekeeping