He offered an additional semester long course on advanced mammalogy in which we could do whatever we wanted. And I studied the Peromyscus, the wood mice and a friend who was in a class ahead of me Arthur Ravenel Jr., and Ravenel, by the way, is honored by the bridge… Read More
What are your degrees?… Read More
Well, I went to the College of Charleston after my high school in Charleston and at the College of Charleston, a very small faculty, a very small institution at the time, but it had been around for a couple of hundred years. So it was quite a delight in terms… Read More
What was your formal schooling?… Read More
Well, I’d… (chuckling) I’d grown up being curious about the creatures around and in Charleston, for instance, we used to try to bring the bats down by throwing objects in the air and then waving branches, et cetera, when they did swoop down after the objects. And we collected creatures… Read More
So there were all kinds of growing up adventures of that kind. But I do remember too in front of my grand parental home in Lumberton, North Carolina, there was a giant live oak that extended out into the highway. And I remember that, because I tracked the carpenter ants… Read More
Did you know then that nature or science was a direction you wanted to go into?… Read More
So when I went back to Charleston, I was really already turned on by the experiences that she’d given us and allowed us in terms of our experiments and so forth. So that was quite a turn on. And then when I got back, fortunately the Curator at the museum… Read More
And it was fortunate in terms of the mischiefs we got into with some of the bird walks with adults comprising the majority, but with us right alongside. So that’s my beginning. It wasn’t in a zoo or zoo circumstances. It was in the natural world in the low country. Read More
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
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
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
Were you interested in zoos or working at zoos as a young age?… Read More
And when you were growing up, what zoos, if any, were you exposed to?… Read More
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
I’m George Rabb. I was born in Charleston, South Carolina on January 2, 1930. Read More
You’re welcome. Read More
What comes to mind?… Read More
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
What do you know about it?… Read More