Hot off the press, new director, all fired up, all excited. And the zoo society and the zoo did not get along. They did not speak. They did not speak to each other, like once or twice a year. And the executive director of the Zoo Society office was in East Liberty, miles away from the zoo, wasn’t on the ground. They didn’t talk to each other. And the city, people in the city didn’t like the Zoo Society either. So within the first, the first thing I did when I got to Pittsburgh was get the lay of the land.
