History is extremely complex, full of details, opinions, facts and half truths…Columbus opened up a line of communication at a vital moment in human history. That much is fact. Did he do bad things? Most likely, but terrible things were happening all over then and are today. Columbus had nothing to do with what was going on in the northeast. The Iroquois were engaged in constant warfare and making slaves of Algonquin and Huron. That was the nature of the world. Yet nowadays people are bound to listen to pop condensed history through the opinions of temporary political opportunists (Walsh) who has little interest in culture, true history, or apparently running a city.
Art. History. Heritage.
