Well, as a kid, I went fishing in a little lake up in Michigan, near Three Rivers, Michigan. It was called Fisher Lake, and my mother was sort of the neighborhood mother. She taught school, and during the summer, she’d go around and gather up a bunch of the neighborhood kids and take them places in Chicago. Take us to the beach at 55th Street, Field Museum, Lincoln Park Zoo, Shedd Aquarium. Museum of Science and Industry. And I went to the aquarium many times like that. Of course, I think as all kids, you don’t really appreciate what’s there, but I did take an interest in and learned the names of quite a few fishes. After high school, I saw nothing at the aquarium until Dr. Orlando Park, who was one of the great ecologists of that time, took us there on a field trip.
