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How Not to Name a Mountain
Since election day, the president has issued a vast and horrible horde of executive orders. Most have been short-sighted and narrow-minded. Many have been racist, mean-spirited, and vindictive. Others have been perplexing and one or two can be classified as mainly the gestures of a megalomaniac. I would like to comment on one of the latter ones, in part because it has a Seattle connection.
In 1886, William Andrews Dickey arrived in Seattle. It was the home of his wife’s parents, Dillis and Sarah Ward. Dickey was a chess prodigy and star pitcher for the Seattle Reds and supposedly one of the…
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