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All right, here we are on a Friday, and that means it's time for Main Street, Connecticut, a chance to showcase our local towns and cities and all that they have to offer. Today we're in New Canaan. News 12 Connecticut's Mark Sudall begins at the New Canaan Nature Center. Hey, we are gonna be talking to Bill Flynn here at the Nature Center this morning. Thank you so much for being with us. What, what are your hours here? So we're open from 9 to 4 Monday through Saturday, um, but our trails are open, uh, dawn till dusk because this is a public park of New Canaan. So every day 365 days a year, uh, the trails are accessible. Wow, that's great stuff. I wanna introduce your fantastic son Henry. Henry, good morning. How are you, brother? Good. I want you to tell me about this bear over here. Let's go over here and you tell me about this bear. What's the deal? This is a real bear, but it is just not alive. These artists realize they're. Well, this bear actually used to be at our house. There was. Someone who had this bear in his house and he and he had to get rid of it so he was just like, OK, who would want this bear? Oh wait, I know that Bill works at the nature center. I'll, I bet he would like it. And so he gave it to us. It was in our house for a second until we finally put it here where I am talking about it right now. All right, now tell me you've got, uh, uh, your namesake over here, Henry the rabbit. What's his deal? Well, he is a black rabbit. He is kind of shy-ish, I mean. He likes to go into that, that's his little house. And you have a tortoise, is that right? Tell us about this tortoise. The red footed tortoise, he is actually one of my favorite animals in the nature center. I love him. He, he likes being scratched on the back. One of his feet, one of his foot has, see that one? It only has three toenails. So and how he got here was. Well there was someone who had had this tortoise and she was going to get a job in England so she was just like, OK, what do I do to the to my beautiful tortoise? and so she brought it into the nature center and now I love him. He, I read to him sometimes. He sometimes he's on the floor. Henry, you're fantastic. I didn't realize too that, uh, he feels, Romeo feels that when you scratch his shell. I had no idea. No, it's because he just like wants to get attention. He's like just like a puppy. He just wants to get attention. He loves interacting with people. Awesome. Henry, Bill, thank you so much. A lot of fun stuff to see here at the Nature Center, Becky, we have some food in our next hour. Pretty well done.

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