Not all PC ...

Monday October 9th is Columbus Day. There is a good deal of mystery about The Italian Navigator.

Some say he was Marano Jew, hiding from the cruelty of the Spanish Inquisition. That would be nice.

For so many years he was a national icon.

Columbus Day was a grand national holiday.

But Christopher Columbus did some cruel things, or was thought to do them. The record is a bit hazy. The settlers from the Old World brought new diseases to the New.

Scandanavians said the first European in The New World was Lief Eriksson. Who knows?


Ben