This transcript represents a recording of a conversation between John Parris and a beekeeper who is unidentified in the interview, in which Parris interviews the speaker about the locust honey he has harvested during that year (1984). Parris often interacted with the beekeeping community in North Carolina, as evidenced by the fact that numerous recordings of these conversations exist; in this interview in particular it is suggested that Parris and the speaker already know each other quite well, including other beekeepers the speaker mentions, and there is also reference to a recent interview between Parris and award-winning North Carolina beekeeper John Mundy. According to the website for the North Carolina State Beekeepers Association, the NCSBA has been in existence since 1917 and is the nation’s largest beekeepers association, so it is understandable that Parris would want to include beekeeping in his reportage of life in Western North Carolina.