Yeah, my, I mean when I first, that was one of the things I wondered when I first went, why Ashbury is right smack in the middle of the state. There’d been in the seventies, had been, you know, debate seventies into the early eighties about having a state zoo. North Carolina didn’t have any, any zoo at the tiny sort of zoo at the time, and six communities competed, but they had to provide a thousand acres minimum. And I think something like half a million dollars, which obviously then was quite a bit of money. The community had to come up with it. So you’d think that Charlotte and Raleigh particularly being, you know, big, big city, pretty big cities by any standards would be the ones that would, you know, win that competition. But we had a group of local businessmen, one in particular who was absolutely determined to get the zoo to Ashbury. And he raised, we bought, well of course one thing was that buying a thousand acres in little Ashbury was much easier than buying a thousand acres on the outskirts of Charlotte for, for all the obvious re even, you know, even in the eighties.
