After reading what you considered front page news in your Thursday, Sept. 20, paper, I felt the need to give my opinion.
My question is because Mr. Duncan is an instigator trying to make waves about everything surrounding the town of Kelseyville; he has already managed to take away our high school mascot that had been the same for over 80 years.
After hearing opinions from the Indians we know, there was absolutely no need to change the name of “Kelseyville Indians.” Is Mr. Duncan a bred and born Lake County Indian? Or is he from somewhere like the ?Height Ashberry” of the 60”s, and just came here to see how much trouble he can initiate?
Kelseyville was named over one hundred years ago and should definitely remain the same for the next hundred years at least. If he doesn”t agree with that, he needs to find something else to put his energy into besides disrupting everyone”s lives with his nonsense of something that happened well over one hundred years ago. We can”t go back and change it. Let it go, and let”s get on with the future.
My background is that I have lived in Kelseyville for 71 years and here is where I want to stay. My mother was born in Kelseyville in 1900 and my dad came here in 1909. They got married in 1919 and left for a while only to return with my two brothers and myself in 1936. We all attended Kelseyville School, “home of the Indians,” and my brother graduated from Kelseyville High School in 1940 and 1941.
I started first grade here and finished high school in 1948. All four of my children went through school in Kelseyville and graduated from Kelseyville High School as the Kelseyville Indians. So you can see, I am one citizen that is very much against any name change Mr. Duncan has in mind for us.
And just maybe if he didn”t get front page reviews from your paper, we would all be better off.
Barbara Schnabl
Kelseyville
