[Villages Kahuna]

The Savannah Center was jammed tonight to hear a presentation by Mark Morse, President and CEO of The Villages. The main auditorium was filled, as was the other large room which was set up with a video/audio feed of the speech.

Morse is a young man, about early forties, and I think he's probably the grandson of Harold Schwartz. His Dad, I think is Gary Morse, former CEO and now the non-executive Chairman of the Board of The Villages (technically, The Villages of Lake Sumter, Inc.). The youngr Morse arrived on stage in blue jeans and a casual shirt, looking like he had just spent the day deeloping land and building houses, which is exactly what he probably did. His presentation was compete and very upbeat.

I won't go into a lot of detail other than the disappointing news that we all may have seen the last of our beloved buffalo. Morse explained that in spite of many, many warnings there had been three human-buffalo "incidents" in the last month and that the decision had been made to remove the buffalo to a place where there would be no interaction with humans. He said that The Villages simply could no longer risk the liability that resulted from the close proximity of humans to wild animals. Morse explained that the entire herd would be moved to "the north 40" within the next few days, presumably never to be seen within our community again.

Sad news. Sad...sad...