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When Boston went all out on Columbus Day
By adamg on Mon, 10/10/2016 - 10:30am
What Boston City Hall (now Old City Hall, of course) looked like on the 400th-anniversary Columbus Day back in 1892, via the Boston City Archives.
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That's Indigenous People's Day to you, Mac!
And don't you forget it!
No its not
It Columbus Day bub... Its incredibly naive to think that is it wasn't for Columbus in the year 2016 this land mass would be solely inhabited by natives.
Columbus, cheers to you for getting lost !
Two things....
1) Pretty sure Elmer F was being whimsical,
2) Yes, it's likely that if Columbus had not brought slavery, etc to the new world someone else would have gotten around to it. So why are we celebrating him?
Well
Yes, you're quite right! It would be incredibly naive to think that. Someone else would almost certainly have come along in short order to murder them all those natives just as efficiently.
Not sure how that helps you here, though?
And also for the genocide!
No fireworks
No fireworks, I hope.
5,000 lights
Electric company applied for permission to decorate with 5,000 lights-some can be seen on the sign. Found this info in a Boston Magazine blog entry from 2013, they posted the application, which is also in the City Archives.
Is there a high-res version?
I can't see if there are any chopped-off hands hanging from the bunting.