Season’s Greetings: Christopher Columbus Day
I bid you Season’s Greeting of a happy Christopher Columbus Day. Today we celebrate Christopher Columbus who set sail across the ocean blue on August 2, 1492 in the Niña, Pinta, and the flagship, Santa Maria. On October 12, 1492, Columbus first saw the islands of the new world, landing in the Bahamas. Later in the month, he would sail to Cuba, and to Hispaniola (now Haiti). First of all, let me state something unequivocally: Columbus really did discover America. By making that claim, I am obviously not suggesting that no human being had set foot on the continent before 1492. But there can be no denying that Columbus was the person who brought America to the attention of the technologically advanced, civilized world and paved the way for the expansion of Western civilization (what a horrifying thought). True, if Algore, had discovered the New World, we would still be living in the jungle exchanging wampum for milo.