Hi all - I had an opportunity this past weekend why attending "A Cross Creek
Summer" (a festival focusing on the life and work of he writer Marjorie Kinan
Rawlings) in Gainesville, FL to meet Victor Nunez, director of Ulee's Gold.
 His first film, Gal Young'Un - based on Rawlings story - was being shown.
Afterward I complimented him on Ulee's Gold and told him how delighted I was
with its verisimiltude regarding the bees and the care of them.  He was
pleased to know his efforts had been appreciated and told me that Ulee had
been voted "Beekeeper of the Year" at the AFofB meeting.  I had not heard
that but was tickled.  I was also saddened to hear that at that meeting the
last ever merit badge for beekeeping as awarded to a Boy Scout.  Has there
really been no interest for decades Is that why it is being discontinued.
 Nunez is a net guy.  Very unpretentous.  And I loved Ulee's Gold.....on many
levels.  It was a very subtle movie.  My favorite kind.
 
Faith Andrews Bedford, Ivy  VA and Tampa