The short message was written on a notepad from a lumber company: Note from my dad found in his bee keeping equipment nine years after his death ... 😥🥹 I unpacked my mom's measuring spoons yesterday ...

The Springfield Township resident stumbled upon beekeeping ... cleaning out their old barn. They offered Barnes what they didn't want, which happened to be unassembled bee equipment.

The threshing bee takes its name from an old tradition in which farmers would gather with their threshing equipment to help neighbors finish the work more quickly, Heindel said. Saturday afternoon ...