DeGracia's Elephants

You may recall the recent pictures of George DeGracia's elephants playing cricket. Jim Clubb having returned to England sent me this picture of Mr. DeGracia with the same elephants. This tableau with the center elephant kneeling down and the others mounting with only one foot is a new twist. On another matter, Shannon was surprised at how much Ringling Park matrial I have. Even I had forgotten the pictures of the railroad cars being hauled in thru the sand and then being placed into position by cranes. He even suggested a chronology from beginning to end but I was only there for the first four years and once leaving never looked back. Roman Schmitt's elephant breeding program would be interesting and possibly even the saga of the bitter end when the park swallered it's tongue and died but that job would have to fall to someone else.