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If you think about it, we are all bees. You surely agree that we share many similarities with these wonderfully diverse insects. Sticking with that comparison like good honey, we can learn a lot about life from bees. For Carol the Bee, life is full of emotions, adventures, and ever-changing demands. Her supervisor, Dudley the Drone, continuously assigns more workload to Carol's stubborn and agreeable co-worker Bonnie and herself. However, during a trip to collect pollen, Carol decides that life can no longer consist of so much exploitation. Trying to change her life and the lives of every bee in the bee-hive of St. H. Comb, Carol sets out to experience adventures in her search for a less stressful, happier world. But change does not come peacefully, and Carol soon finds herself in direct conflict with Queen Bee Queerie, who wants to kill her. Will Carol succeed in helping Bonnie to change her attitude towards work, and will she be able to free St. H. Comb from exploitation?
Lombard has been called the "Lilac Village" since the late 1920s when William R. Plum, affectionately known as the "Colonel," bestowed his world-renowned lilac collection to the village for use as its first public park. Colonel Plum's 2.5-acre estate was known as Lilacia and began in 1911 after a trip to the Lemoine Lilac Gardens in France. By the time Plum passed away in 1927, he had amassed over 200 varieties of lilacs and had the largest collection of French hybrids in the world. Jens Jensen, the famous landscape architect, designed a public space out of Plum's lilac collection with winding paths of native limestone, tulips by the thousands, and a lily pond in the park. The first community-wide Lilac Festival was held in May of 1930, unveiling Jensen's Lilacia and including a Lilac Queen and Court, a pageant, parade, and wide variety of events and festivities celebrating the village's new park.
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