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Did you try and develop a relationship with the press when you were at these places?… Read More

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Well, most cases, it was always positive. As long as you treat the collection properly and then nobody comes and picks on you for doing bad things, then you get good words and more money (chuckles) in the coffers. Read More

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Oh, we always had a press person on staff whose business it was to keep it going. Read More

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(Robert laughs) Well, I don’t know if you could ever say you didn’t raise enough, other than that we never raise enough. I don’t know. Well, now, in all of these zoos… You’ve mentioned Busch Gardens had its own PR, high-powered PR people, but you were at Louisville Zoo and… Read More

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What was the relationship of these other zoos or even Busch Gardens with the press?… Read More

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What were you the most proud of?… Read More

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What was your greatest challenge at that zoo, aside from not raising enough money?… Read More

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I have to go back, and look at it and see. I’m forgetting what we did other than add on to the education facility and continue to develop that. There’s some other building for use in the picnicking and things. Read More

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Or you were helping to move them along?… Read More

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They liked the zoo. Everybody liked the zoo. Read More

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What was your proudest accomplishment at Brevard?… Read More

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Was there positive support?… Read More

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Was that because they liked the zoo?… Read More

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Yeah. You know, one of the things we had down there that drew people around was the Kennedy, space. It was right next door, so we had a lotta people that were involved in that that were employed by that that donated a lotta things to the zoo. And computers,… Read More

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Did you have issues good or bad with the politics in that small zoo?… Read More

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Did the community embrace the zoo?… Read More

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No, not that I can recall. Read More

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Yeah. Read More

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Yeah, yeah, but usually, I never spent that much time. There always seemed to be good staff people available that were just waiting in the wings to get a chance. Read More

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So you could bring people in that you wanted?… Read More