You know, you need to know that Sim the lion was the mascot of the Cudahy-Massee Expedition for the Milwaukee Public Museum and lived in the top floor of the public library until he was two and then they decided, well, he really should go to the zoo. And then you’d read about Sim’s Keeper who had such a great relationship with Sim. When he got a little loaded, he’d go in and lie down, and he’d sleep with sim and nobody could touch him, (Elizabeth chuckles) because Sim wouldn’t let anybody else near him. I mean, stories like that are great. People love to hear stories about animals that you had and we’ve gotten requests, got a request from someone in California who, I guess, became a famous artist and he met his wife at the old Washington Park Zoo in front of, I’ve forgotten which lion it was. But he wanted to know all about this animal, so we were able to tell him, give him the history of the animal and, ’cause every zoo is really part of a community. Everybody’s interested in their community history. So yeah, it’s important and you never know why until you get the stories out there.
