COLUMBUS DAY

Today is a federal holiday.. all the banks and the post office are closed. Many of us don't really "celebrate", but there will be CD parades elsewhere I'm sure. The day is Monday.. the official day of long weekend holidays. In this case, I think.. go for it.. but for holidays like the 4th of July or Veterans Day, I just can't see it. I like tradition.



A sailor on board the Pinta sighted land early in the morning of October 12, 1492, and a new era of European exploration and expansion began.
The next day, the 90 crew members of Christopher Columbus's three-ship fleet ventured onto the Bahamian island of Guanahaní, ending a voyage begun nearly 10 weeks earlier in Palos, Spain.
Over the following decades, the Knights of Columbus, an international Roman Catholic fraternal benefit society, lobbied state legislatures to declare October 12 a legal holiday. Colorado was the first state to do so on April 1, 1907.
New York declared Columbus Day a holiday in 1909 and on October 12, 1909, New York Governor Charles Evans Hughes led a parade that included the crews of two Italian ships, several Italian-American societies, and legions of the Knights of Columbus. Since 1971 Columbus Day, designated as the second Monday in October, has been celebrated as a federal holiday.
In many locations across the country Americans parade in commemoration of the day.