And I thought about it and through some friends, and I, in 1982, I had done an interview with Marlin Perkins, former director of Lincoln Park Zoo, and serendipitously, ’cause he was at the zoo and I wanted to get the history of Lincoln Park Zoo from him directly, which I did. And it was a wonderful experience. But subsequently, through some friends, I met a woman named Loretta Caravette who was a producer and director of films and television and so forth. And we kind of got together and I told her about my idea and we brainstormed, and out of that came the Zoo & Aquarium Video Archives which I am the co-creator and Loretta’s co-creator of it to try and save for future generations the wisdom of the past. And that’s how this whole thing really came about and have had the opportunity to meet a ton of wonderful colleagues that I knew personally from my career, and some people I never got to to know and I got to meet. So that’s kind of the derivation of what we’re doing today and what’s been ongoing with this project. Very interesting. I noted that your video documenting career was begun well before you started the Zoo & Aquarium Archive project, however, with among other notable accomplishments, the documentation of Lincoln Park Zoo’s first veterinary workup of the gorilla, Sinbad, one of the most iconic animals of the zoo.
