Hello Everyone,

     I came across this on ebay and recalled someone on BEE-L asking for
famous people that were beekeepers. Here is a new one:

EXCERPT FROM DUST JACKET Detroit is the automotive capital of the world. It
is also the birthplace---80 years ago---of S. S. Kresge’s dime store dynasty
that has become one of the world’s leading mercantile enterprises---the K
mart Corporation, which registered annual sales in 1978 of $11.7 billion.
It all started when Sebastian Spering Kresge, a Pennsylvania Dutch boy, who
excelled in bee culture, set out to make his fortune. Sebastian worked as a
“drummer”---a tinware salesman, out of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and
managed during the “Panic of 1893” to save $8,000 to invest in his own
business.
How S. S. Kresge progressed---and how so many men and women helped him
succeed, is told in easy, down-to-earth style by his son, Stanley S. Kresge.
The S. S. Kresge Story is not a theory on how to make millions of dollars.
It tells you when and how it was done, and ultimately how it was spent “to
benefit humanity.” In an unprecedented way---through the eyes of his peers,
Stanley relates how Sebastian, wholeheartedly, gave it all back to the very
people who helped him earn it in the first place.
A book of national import, The S. S. Kresge Story appeals strongly to
Americans who had a hand in the company’s development and to their
descendants, the K mart shoppers of today.
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Garry Libby
Attleboro, Massachusetts, USA
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