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Interview 13894 – Caption Index: 6

And she said, “Get out and sit down.” And we got out and sat down in what looked like just a vacant field, a little grassy vacant field. But it was really a turn on. It was a field of Venus flytraps. That’s the very age of the range, about… Read More

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No, I wasn’t interested in zoos at a young age. I was interested in the outdoors and the creatures around. My turn on really came when the family moved for a year up to Lumberton, North Carolina. And in that circumstance, I was in the seventh grade when I left… Read More

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We tested the white lightning on the lab rats, and so forth. We also manufactured explosives. And one of the incidents in that time was that there was a county agent meeting at the high school and they asked us to vacate the lab. And we warned them that in… Read More

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Were you interested in zoos or working at zoos as a young age?… Read More

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And when you were growing up, what zoos, if any, were you exposed to?… Read More

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Well, there really was not a zoo in Charleston, South Carolina. There was a park in Midtown, so to speak, that had mainly birds of different varieties and species, but there was no zoo as such in Charleston when I was growing up. Instead there was the Charleston Museum, which… Read More

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I’m George Rabb. I was born in Charleston, South Carolina on January 2, 1930. Read More

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You’re welcome. Read More

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What comes to mind?… Read More

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You devoted so many years to it. When I think about the zoo of profession here in North America, I think about a close knit band of people with like minds who are passionate about wild animals, about wild places, about conservation, about what it’s gonna take to keep them,… Read More

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What do you know about it?… Read More

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I guess I’m pleased about going outside of the box and going into an area where I was uncomfortable and that is the fundraising to get the endowment established. And I worked very hard with our board and with the newly formed endowment board to get that project funded, because… Read More

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What do you know about this profession you’ve worked in that you’ve devoted so many years of your life to?… Read More

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So in all the time you were director of Brownsville, is there one thing that you might point to, if I asked you about your proudest accomplishment, what you’re proud about?… Read More

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I’ll give you one warning, but it it’s not applicable anymore and let’s not use a phone after Fred Z Handler talked on it because he would get so excited that he would slab and make the phone a mess. One good story about Fred Z, we imported an Indian… Read More

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And we did end up losing him shortly after his 30 day insurance was up. And I felt very badly about that. And Fred did also, but in all good conscious to Fred Z handler, he did everything possible he could to see that that animal had the best chance… Read More

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Can you gimme a story or two?… Read More

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Did you ever have op the opportunity or did you work with Fred Z handler to bring animals in?… Read More

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Goodness. Yes. Read More

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And I think that we need to be more and more aware of this because not only for laws that may affect how we act, but also for funding opportunities for our various nonprofit organizations. Going back just slightly, you mentioned that when you were putting things together at Gladys… Read More

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