Clark County

Oh, it's very awesome.

So we have set up a committee of the aquatics community, all different coaches and swim team reps and area schools, uh- County Parks and Rec, both from Clark County and Frederick County.

So we have a group of about, I think there's about 12 or 13 people.

The university's on there.

And then at the end of the day, we're trying to get partners.

Yeah.

It'd be great to have Frederick County, Clark County, the city, the university, everybody on.

And then you want time to fundraise from the private sec.

You know, when I think about so much of the work the Institute has undertaken over the last 38 years, you know, so much of it, some of it has been funded by national funders, but so much of the place-based work has been funded, in fact, by lean funders.

The Greater Clark Foundation in Clark County, Kentucky, had one full-time staff person and a half-time staff person.

In Redding, Pennsylvania, it was funded in part by the Weill Missing Foundation, two part-time people.

in North River Manatee County right now in Florida.

Who stuck out for you?

Well, the i- the number one energy guy is Jerome Morton, the guy from Clark County.

He, he just doesn't, his motor runs the whole time.

But here's what stuck out to me, if you wanna be honest.

We know Boone's party carried it because they named a creek after it.

In seventeen seventy, Boone and a few other long hunters were camped in what's now Clark County, Kentucky, and one of them was reading Gulliver aloud in the evenings.

After a fight with some Indians, one of the men joked that they'd whip the yahoos at Lorbrulgrud, which is a city in the book.

The creek they were camped on has been called Lulbugrud Creek ever since.