Don't Stand in Front of the Hive: Notes on the First 15 Months of a Novice Beekeeper - Softcover

Stovall, Jim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0615586821 ISBN 13: 9780615586823

Publisher: First Inning Press, 2012

Synopsis

One of the first rules of beekeeping is . . . Don’t Stand in Front of the Hive You’ll learn that and many other things in this delightful and enlightening book. Beekeeping takes a human being on a privileged journey into the realms of nature's most fascinating insect. If the human being has any sense at all, he or she will understand, at least, the privilege and will deem it an honor bestowed by the bees. This book records some of the first steps of a novice beekeeper on that journey. Author Jim Stovall tries to approach beekeeping with a deep sense of humility and respect for the bees and an awareness of his ignorance about what he has undertaken. You will find in this book not only respect and humility but the author's sense of humor. Jim Stovall is a journalism professor at the University of Tennessee. He has also taught journalism at the University of Alabama and Emory and Henry College. He and his wife live on a small farm in East Tennessee.

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About the Author

Stovall holds the position of Edward J. Meeman Distinguished Professor of Journalism at the University of Tennessee. Before joining the UT faculty in 2006, Stovall was a visiting professor of mass communication at Emory and Henry College in Emory, Va. He came to Emory and Henry in 2003 after serving as a journalism professor for 25 years at the University of Alabama, where he is professor emeritus. He is also a co-director of Southern Opinion Research, a private survey public opinion firm specializing in legal, political and media research. Stovall began teaching at the University of Alabama in 1978. During that time he has also served as director of the Communication Research and Service Center, co-director of the Capstone Poll, and assistant dean in the College of Communication. His teaching specialties are writing, web journalism, editing, visual journalism, teaching high school journalism and public opinion research. At Tennessee he initiated the development of the Tennessee Journalist (TNJN.com), the student-operated news web site of the School of Journalism and Electronice Media. Stovall spent the summer of 1998 working in the news graphics department of the Chicago Tribune. Most of his time was spent as a graphics coordinator. As such, he researched and designed graphics to support news stories for the paper. He was at the Tribune as part of a fellowship he received from the American Society of Newspaper Editors. He returned to the Tribune to work in the same capacity in the summer of 1999. He is a native of Nashville, Tennessee and received his bachelor of science degree in journalism from the University of Tennessee in 1970. He received his master's degree in political science from American University in 1973 and earned his doctorate in mass communication from the University of Tennessee in 1978. From 1970 to 1974, he served on active duty in the United States Navy. During much of that time he was a staff writer for All Hands magazine. His reporting and editing experience includes stints with the Bristol (Tenn.-Va.) Herald Courier, the Knoxville News-Sentinel, the Birmingham News and the Tuscaloosa News. Stovall is married to Sally McMillan of Maryville, Tennessee, and they have one son, Jefferson, who was born in 1980 and now lives in Washington, D.C.

Edition details

• Publisher: First Inning Press
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0615586821
• ISBN 13: 9780615586823
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64