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Ariella Brooks, 5, points at a bee inside a honeycomb hole May 27 at the apiary on the Mountain Valley campus in Mexico. (Libby Kamrowski Kenny/Staff Photographer)
Beekeeper Maggie Corlett fires up a smoker to calm bees May 27 before children arrive on a field trip to the apiary on the Mountain Valley campus in Mexico . (Libby Kamrowski Kenny/Staff Photographer)
Beekeeper Maggie Corlette points out where bees enter their box to Carson, 9, on May 27 at the apiary on the Mountain Valley campus in Mexico. (Libby Kamrowski Kenny/Staff Photographer)
Students and parents on a homeschool trip observe bees May 27 at the apiary on the Mountain Valley campus in Mexico. (Libby Kamrowski Kenny/Staff Photographer)
Bees emerge from an entrance to their box May 27 at the apiary on the Mountain Valley campus in Mexico. (Libby Kamrowski Kenny/Staff Photographer)
Homeschool children crowd around display cases containing live bees May 27 while beekeeper Maggie Corlette talks about their life cycle at the apiary on the Mountain Valley campus in Mexico. (Libby Kamrowski Kenny/Staff Photographer)
Evolette Brooks, 3, holds out her hand to try to get a bee to land on it while watching others fly around May 27 at the apiary on the Mountain Valley campus in Mexico. (Libby Kamrowski Kenny/Staff Photographer)
Beekeeper Maggie Corlett talks about bees with sisters Ariella, middle, and Evolette Brooks May 27 at the apiary on the Mountain Valley campus in Mexico. The girls were there on a field trip for homeschooled children as part of a program that works with the Rumford Public Library. (Libby Kamrowski Kenny/Staff Photographer)
Ariella Brooks, 5, stares at bees on display May 27 at the apiary on the Mountain Valley campus in Mexico. (Libby Kamrowski Kenny/Staff Photographer)
Rumford Public Library Children’s Librarian Sarah Cotnoir holds out a tray that is not yet occupied by working bees May 27 so that Ariella Brooks, right, can see at the apiary on the Mountain Valley campus in Mexico. (Libby Kamrowski Kenny/Staff Photographer)

Libby Kamrowski Kenny is a staff photographer at the Sun Journal who came aboard in June 2025. She’s been in journalism longer than that though, as her prematurely graying hair can attest, starting as...

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