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The call of the wild in Cranbrook
Jane Goodall was in Cranbrook this past weekend. She shared her story, some words of encouragement and reasons for hope. A n n a le e Gr a n t Townsman Staff
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Dr. Jane Goodall, known as Dr. Jane to the youth of Cranbrook who heard her speak Monday morning, waves goodbye while clutching her well-known travelling companion, Mr. H. Dr. Goodall spoke at a number of events, bringing her message of hope for the future to youth, adults, business owners and more. See more on Goodall and her Roots and Shoots program this week in the Townsman.
There are few words that accurately describe the quickness of Dr. Jane Goodall’s trip to the Kootenays. Whirlwind is one that comes to mind. But the legacy she left and the knowledge and ideas implanted into the minds of youth and adults alike is even harder to describe. Goodall, affectionately known as Dr. Jane to the young people involved in her Roots and Shoots program, was the keynote speaker at a variety of events on September 30 and October 1. She met with educators, business owners, children and more. Not only did she promote Roots and Shoots, but she talked of her illustrious career as a primatologist through engaging storytelling that had audiences of 600 people hanging off her every word. To the thrill of all audiences, Goodall began each lecture with the
pantoot, the call of the chimpanzee. It was returned enthusiastically by both adults and children.
“Animals indeed are much more like us than scientists would let us believe.” Goodall said her story began as a child who loved animals. She told the Key City Theatre crowd Sunday evening of her mother’s support. She once went to bed with a handful of earthworms, and her mother turned that funny experience into a chance to teach a young Jane Goodall where the worms really belong – in the garden – and although she thought they would enjoy a snooze in her human bed, they would die if kept away from their home. “I was just lucky I had an extraordinary
mother,” she said. When Jane was 11 to 12 years old, she first read Tarzan perched in a beech tree at home. It was that story that inspired her to go to Africa later on in life. “I fell passionately in love with Tarzan, and what did he do? He flippin’ married the wrong Jane,” she said to much laughter. Goodall’s journey to Africa wasn’t a clear path. She was, after all, a girl in the 1960s and international travel was not common for women of her age. But again, her mother’s influence prevailed. She told her daughter to find a way, and Goodall did just that. She became a secretary and eventually got invited to holiday in Kenya by a friend. She worked as a waitress to save up money, in a story that is probably being reflected by hundreds of East Kootenay youth this very second.
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