"Mine our rich heritage for park names"
David Robertson
ddr11 at COLUMBIA.EDU
Sun Aug 27 01:15:25 UTC 2006
A suggested park name in the Seattle area, from an op-ed piece in the
August 26, 2006 "Bainbridge Island Review"
(http://www.bainbridgereview.com/portals-code/list.cgi?
paper=96&cat=48&id=716115&more=):
"For the Hall parcel, we might need look no further than the Hawley
neighborhood in which it sits; there, a Mosquito Fleet landing was
established in 1927, and the property counts a creek and marshland amongst
its geographic features. Hawley Creek Park, perhaps? Or, historian Jerry
Elfendahl suggests, the name Tillikum Park could honor one of the islands
popular ferries of the 1950s and 60s. (Tillikum, he notes, means friend
in Chinook jargon[...)]"
---Dave R
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