Also naive. When driving by the harbor near the Adler Planetarium with my brother, he pointed to the empty slips and said, “Oh, look, they’ve sunk the boats in the harbor.” He went on to explain that boats are waterproof and that the safest place for them through the winter was underwater. As a young, newly married lady, years later, I was driving by the harbor with my husband and happily cried out, “Oh, look! They’ve sunk the boats in the harbor.”
I met Mark Lenard many, many years ago at a Star Trek convention. He always looked Native American to me, so I asked, but he said he wasn’t.