Well, the first zoo I am told that I saw was the old Central Riverside Park Zoo in Wichita which, quite honestly I don’t remember seeing it then. I remember seeing it in later years, but that probably was the first zoo that I visited. The zoo I remember most vividly from my early childhood is the National Zoo in Washington, DC. And my father used to take me there. And that may be where I gained my empathy for wildlife and animals. What a magical place, it was marvelous. And then when I moved to Kansas City, of course, as a youngster, as a teenager, ride my bike out to Kansas City Zoo in Swope Park. So I spent a lot of time there and all the things I’d read about animals came alive there at Kansas City Zoo.
