Well, it’s one of those things that if you’d asked me 30 years ago, if we’d been involved with a rare plant lab, I was said no way. Or if you’d asked, you know, 30 years ago, if we’d ever be involved in reforestation or, or some of these other, you know, we were supporting some schools in Madagascar, which I used to consider social engineering. I would’ve said no way. But we are and it’s effective. Basically when we were, when we were designing and building the Lied Jungle, you know, which is a tropical rainforest, which at the time was the largest of its kind in the world and still is rated as the best total immersion exhibit just about anywhere. We wanted to do orchids, didn’t know anything about orchids, but seemed like orchids, you know, jungles and orchids and all, it was a good thing to do. So we found a volunteer who was kind of a Nebraska orchid specialist who was actually working on a graduate degree at UNL, an atypical student. He’d gone to school, gotten a degree, gotten out of school, gotten married, raised a family, going back to school and, and Marge Fromm agreed to come in and volunteer and help us put together a bit of an orchid program, although her main work was in the Western Prairie fringed orchid, which is an orchid that grows in Nebraska of all places up in the Sandhills.
