Ketchikan's city council rejected a proposed name for a park that’s home to an iconic piece of Native art. “I believe that park represents the Native community in more ways than I think a lot of people understand,' one council member said.
Nathan Jackson’s “Thundering Wings” carving is seen near Ketchikan City Hall on a clear day in 2020.
But a third proposal — to name a park that’s home to an iconic piece of Native art after a white man — drew criticism at the meeting. Laurence was born in Australia and moved to Ketchikan in the mid-20th century. In the 1970s, when a cruise season brought fewer than 70,000 passengers, he famously predicted that one day Ketchikan’s annual cruise ship visitor numbers would top a million a year. The 2018 cruise ship season proved him right.
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