Terse Tuesday - Eugenics Euthanized

One of the great social centers of the area is Goethe Park, a great green collection of trees and open spaces and picnic tables that the river wraps in a graceful curve. When I moved here in the '80s I liked to pronounce it "Göthe" and not "Gatey" as the locals did. But I was wrong. It was named not after the great philosopher but after Charles Goethe, who among other things founded the college that became the university I graduated from. Other things included a lifelong interest in eugenics and the concept of racial superiority. About three years ago the park was renamed. I didn't know that until the other day when driving nearby, I saw a sign not for the park I knew but for a park I'd never heard of. Frankly, 'salright with me.