The people who have assisted my journey to understand and elucidate the Georgics for others is enormous. My first debt of gratitude has to be to those who have helped me understand what little I know about honeybees, especially Ron Klein, Charlotte Hubbard, Sheldon Schwitek and countless others I have interacted with at the Kalamazoo Bee Club, Kalamazoo Bee School, Kalamazoo Valley Community College, and Tillers International.
The Writing Community of Practice I shared work with was also incredibly sustaining: my deepest thanks to Espelencia Baptiste, Reid Gómez, Yue Hong and Amy Smith. Your insights were invaluable. Thanks also to Christine Hahn for allowing me to share a portion of the work at the Kalamazoo College Faculty Study and to Ann Fraser, co-presenter and entomologist extraordinaire. My gratitude to Arthur Cole for explaining astral phenomena and Morgan Loechli for explaining Bernoulli’s Principle.