"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 island’s 
popular ferries of the 1950s and ‘60s. (Tillikum, he notes, means “friend” 
in Chinook jargon[...)]"

---Dave R

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