Author Christine Tailer to appear at Hillsboro library
Highland County Press columnist Christine Tailer has published her first book.
“Sixty Thousand Sisters: Daughters of the Queen” is about honeybees, which as Tailer’s readers know is an important subject for her. Tailer writes a weekly column for The Highland County Press. She and her husband reside on their farm on Straight Creek near Georgetown.
Christine Tailer was born and raised in New York City, but moved to Ohio to attend college. She graduated from Kenyon College, majoring in both anthropology and psychology, and then followed up at the University of Cincinnati, where she received her master's in anthropology and later a law degree. She retired as a full-time insurance defense litigator in Cincinnati, as the last of her four children "left the urban nest" that she and her husband had created in a fully renovated 100-year-old home in the heart of the city.
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With her children safely launched, Christine and her husband then followed their own dreams and moved to their 63-acre, off-grid farm in Brown County, Ohio, where Christine now practices law part-time, raises honeybees, goats, meat rabbits and chickens, tends a large chemical-free garden and enjoys learning about the area's wild edibles, which includes tapping the farm's many maple trees.
Christine will share her personal experiences as a beekeeper at Straight Creek Valley Farm, where this once totally urban lady now lives happily in a 388 square foot, solar-powered cabin that she and her husband have built completely by hand; how they have learned to farm using 1960s technology; and how they love living the rural life.
The program will begin at 6:30 p.m. on May 20. Everyone is invited to attend.