Terry Brennan and Rachel Gagen

00:01 My name is Rachel Valiant easterly Gahagan. I'm 39 years old today is November 19th, 2015. I live in Lynchburg, Virginia, and I'm here talking today with my friend and colleague. Dr. Terry Brennan.

00:17 And I'm Terry Brennan and I've been in Lynchburg for quite a bit longer than my friend Rachel gagen. We are we really enjoyed working together and also enjoying a Mason Square together.

00:30 But I've been here 30 years as opposed to Rachel's several years. So and we are here participating in this storycorps for a Mason Square HOA.

00:44 You and I share a love of Amazement square and there lots of different great exhibits in and things to explore there. So what are some of the places that you love an amazing spirit and why is it that they're special for you and your family in?

01:00 So I moved here eight years ago and I had a one year old and was immediately directed to Amazement Square as a great place for indoor play when it was too rainy outside and just from the minute you walk in the front door. There's this great little farm that you can see and big kids are not allowed in it. So from the beginning of always loved the farm. There's a cow that you can milk. There's corn that you can pluck out of the stocks that seem to go super super high when you're only 1 years old, but then going from there. I love the stairs. It's got light upstairs if you touch it step which because of my generation reminds me of Michael Jackson and Billie Jean video, but it just makes you want to take the stairs, which is really cool to me. I'm a pediatrician by day. I'm a health advocate in my spare time, and I'm always trying to find a way to get my own kids moving but especially kids in our school system that are encouraged to sit on their bottoms most of the day and then the coolest thing now and Mason Square cuz it continues to

02:00 Evolve and change is that they took the old Health exhibit. That wasn't too bad. It was cool. You walked through the heart and you felt the heart beating and now there's this great health exhibit that talks more about junk food, which is everywhere and always being offered your kids and finding healthy snacks instead and then reminding them about how exercise actually makes them feel better sitting on the couch makes you feel like you're sinking and they've got this couch that actually falls down a little bit as you sit in it and you feel like you're trapped. So that was a really cool experience because of you. I think I got invited to be on a committee that designed some of the concepts behind that right? And so that's that's probably my current favorite. What about you Terry? What's your favorite part of Mason Square? Well, we were living here for many years before at Mason Square became a Mason Square. So my 4 boys were older when a Mason Square opened and my youngest