Tim Lydon: How much will a name change change the peace of an Alaska bay?

Derogatory names of natural landmarks are contemptuous and dehumanizing.

(Jerad Hill | Unsplash) View of Kenai Mountains, Alaska, near the bay that Tim Lydon writes about.

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By Tim Lydon | Writers on the Range