Will’s Beekeeping — By Tommy Purser

The community is full of excitement these days for favorite son Will Moseley who, this week, was chosen to be among the final seven in the 2024 competition for American Idol.
This Sunday the group will be pared down further and you can bet thousands of Jeff Davis County citizens, along with millions across the nation, will be glued to their television sets to see Sunday’s episode.
This week, I happened to run across this photo of Will we ran in the Ledger back in 2015 when he was enjoying playing recreation baseball with his friends, most of whom remain his friends today. That team won the Georgia Recreation and Parks Association State Junior Boys Baseball Championship to the thrill of all the youngsters, coaches and parents involved.
A couple of years before that, I was at the recreation department  here talking with Will’s dad, Todd Moseley, about his beekeeping (i.e. apiculture) hobby which has led the elder Moseley to sell honey at various locations throughout Hazlehurst and Jeff Davis County. Young Will listened in closely to our conversation and eagerly added in a few tidbits of the knowledge he had learned following Todd around as he tended to his bee colonies, gathered the honey and prepared it for distribution.
I was struck by how much the youngster knew about his father’s honey endeavor, and he excitedly shared with me various annecdotes associated with bee-keeping that the average person — me — would not know. I found him to be quite knowledgeable about Todd’s operation.
During the American Idol competition I’ve watched curiously to see if the show’s producers had caught wind of Will’s unusual bee-keeping knowledge which, I thought, viewers would find interesting. It’s another side of Will that makes him just that more interesting.