Patricia Stambor, Seattle Kalakala Times should rally populace, be a leader in civic causes You miss the point. The sea and the ships are the story. We kids tied her to the eternal mystery of the sea. Years later, she was old and we had no home for her. So for reasons adults understood, she was sent away.
Society needs the values of children and adults.
Artist and hero Peter Bevis is creating quite a story and The Seattle Times is doing well to send storytellers to Alaska to tell it. I'm sure it's selling papers. She knows facts but probably doesn't know that her facts aren't always as important as the truth we find in a good story. I know this was a column you had to print, but now I think it's time for you to take the position of The Seattle Times of generations past - rallying the populace, being a leader in civic causes. Even if the Kalakala sinks on the way home, it will be a good story.