The anniversary of Christopher Columbus' 1492 arrival in the Americas (he landed in the Bahamas) has been celebrated in New York City since 1792.
In 1934, at the request of the Knights of Columbus (they had more pull than the Knights of Broadway), Congress and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt made Columbus Day a Federal holiday.
To the "average Joe" .. it is also true for the "slightly below or above average Joe" and the "gifted Joe" .. this doesn't mean that much.
We are still going in to work today (the exception? .. 'retired Joe' who has been known to check out this blog .. when he finally arises, sometime in late afternoon).
To most of us, Columbus Day is pretty much like any other day of the year. The only difference is ...
We won't be receiving any mail and it is impossible to cash a check.
Of course the irony in this whole "in fourteen hundred and ninety two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue" (I just made that up, you know) thing is that good ole Chris thought he had landed in Asia.
Oops.
Obviously, there wasn't a woman onboard to say, "You should have turned back there."
" .. we launched, meaning to sail by the coasts of Asia .." - Acts 27:2b
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Please! It's only 11:17, and I've been up almost a whole hour!
The guilty Joe always barks first...
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