“The Ark in the Park” was labor of love because I’d been with the organization such a long time and cared about it, knowing that no one had ever produced a history of the zoo. There’d been a mini one done many years ago, but it was like in a little publication. And I always had an interest in history. And I had met Marlin Perkins. And I had talked to people who literally knew some of the older zoo directors. Danny Bostrom was a guy in his 90s, I interviewed on a tape. And he had met all these people. And I had this information.
