Elephants.com

[McNeon@domain.elided]

If you aren't aware of it already, please check out www.elephants.com, the 
website of The Elephant Sanctuary in Hohenwald, Tennessee, USA. It's billed 
as "a natural-habitat refuge where sick, old and needy elephants can once 
more walk the earth with peace and dignity." They just received a new 
elephant, "Bunny", from the Evansville, Indiana Zoo.

As an animal lover of the first magnitude, I'm immensely proud that such a 
facility exists in my home state. The tales of these magnificent creatures 
and their response upon coming to the Sanctuary is heartwarming, to say the 
least. As far as I know, it is the only such facility in the world. 

Alfa Content: I'm hoping we can work out some tie-in with the Sanctuary for 
our 2001 AROC convention in Nashville (Hohenwald is about 50 miles from 
here), but I'm not counting on it. The elephants there are not on display. 
Also, I know at least one of the Alfas I've owned could be considered 
something of a "white elephant"!

Bob McKeown
Nashville, TN

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