The postcard is of "Leif the Discoverer", a bronze statue by Anne Whitney. It was erected in 1887, a copy of the same statue she built in Boston.
Inscription:
Leif the Discoverer
Son of Erik
Who sailed from Iceland
And discovered this continent
AD 1000
Thanks, catherine.
The deed is done, and the garlic is mulched with pine needles.
You inspired me to go looking for garlic today but two garden centers did not have it. I then tried to find organic at two supermarkets so it wouldn't be sprayed with an antigrowth substance to prevent sprouting but they didn't have it either. I will try Whole Foods Market tomorrow since that is near where I work.
It is indeed. While there is no record of him stopping by Milwaukee for beer, brats and frozen custard, the upper Midwest likes to keep the legend alive. And while some Columbus statues have been vandalized around the country, I'm not aware of any such attacks on Leif the Lucky.
yea i wasn't aware they were offering. But although some settlers to the New World engaged in their genocides against native americans, Europe was ALSO periodically engaging in genocides against various of their people (the obvious and probably less obvious like the Irish potato famine as well). So .... there was nowhere genocide free to be really, live and let live was not so easily attained. Or many people were fairly innocent, but not so many continents were.Right about now, i'd be happy to--
Trees don't grow on money
I don't particularly have strong feelings one way or the other about columbus day. After all the reality is that if we didn't have columbus day we'd have some other day named after whatever other dude eventually sailed the ocean blue and figured out that the world had a whole other hemisphere just waiting to be plundered.
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