This is my 300th weekly history photo in a row for the Portsmouth Herald. That got me wondering if I have ever done anything "historic" myself. This photo came to mind. Back in the 1980s, while running a creative Seacoast business, my company shot an elephant in our office. (continued below)

As the story goes, Andy Kaplan, owner of Kinderworks, wanted to prove that his locally-made children’s furniture was super sturdy. So he hired a baby elephant to stand on a table and he hired my colleague Ralph Morang to take the photo. Afterwards, our production team posed with the little guy. I don’t recall how we got him up to the second floor photo studio, but here is the unretouched results. From left to right: Illustrator Scott Hill, writer J. Dennis Robinson, the elephant, photographer Ralph Morang, and designer Ann Wilcox. (Courtesy RalphMorang.com)

Photo by Ralph Morang  / Ideaworks Creative Services 1989