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Robert W. Butler

Robert W. Butler

KC native’s documentary explores ‘The Vanishing of the Bees’

By ROBERT W. BUTLER

The Kansas City Star

All over the planet bees are disappearing. Nobody can definitively say why. But filmmaker George Langworthy, a 1985 graduate of Shawnee Mission East, thinks this ecological crisis is important enough to warrant a feature film.

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