Who’s canceling whom?
It was interesting reading a recent letter to the editor, published in the ADN on April 6, panning the recent plan to rename Palmer’s Colony Days to the Braided River Festival. I guess that this plan has since been rescinded. It seems like the Palmer Chamber of Commerce didn’t do a very good job in consulting with the community and explaining their reasoning before attempting this change.
I can understand why it would be disconcerting for some to have a longstanding community tradition upset. I really don’t understand, though, the author’s reference to the “woke cancel culture that attempted to slither into Palmer recently.” If the author is so concerned about “cancel culture,” where is the concern for the effort to cancel Native American culture that has been going on for hundreds of years now? They were here long before the Palmer colonists arrived, and perhaps deserve some respect as well.
— Dennis Gall
Anchorage
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