Earlier this summer (1997) I saw the film "The
Ghost and the Darkness" based on a true story about a pair of
lions that devoured 140 workers during the building of a railroad bridge
across the Tsavo (SAH-vo) River in East Africa (1898). At the end of the
movie it mentioned that the lions were on permanent display at the Field
Museum in Chicago. Later in the summer we were in Chicago and Francie took
this snapshot of me with them. While looking at the picture I realized
that they were familiar lions. Was Rousseau ever in Chicago?
P.S. Since I used a title by Philip Levine, the least I can
do is show you his poem.
