Join us at Nanny O’Brien’s Irish Pub in Washington, DC’s Cleveland Park as we reminisce and celebrate the city’s historical support for the National Zoo with Kara Arundel, author of Raising America’s Zoo: How Two Wild Gorillas Helped Transform the National Zoo. This novel shares the heartbreak and triumphs of the zoo’s first family of gorillas and their caregivers as the zoo transitioned from an antiquated animal park to an internationally-respected animals conservation center. The book also discusses how Arundel’s father-in-law Arthur “Nick” Arundel at first celebrated the gorillas’ capture in Africa in 1955, then grew to regret his tale of hunting gorillas, and spent the rest of his life as an advocate for animal conservation.