> October 12th
This is the original Columbus Day.
It was a great day off back in the day in Southern NE. Best Fall weather.
Basic message, then, was Columbus sailing for Asia when most of the world laughed at him. Expand your horizons and seek a higher truth.
Can't have that nowadays. Bad White Guy syndrome.
Trump's going to stick it in their eye again.
It's not that those ideas were present back then, more like Columbus was documented, at least, or has a credible record in history.
The idea that a person shouldn't be held back by the opinions of the majority was a very big message, as I recall. It wasn't racist, either, just the concept that excepted beliefs cam be wrong. Columbus and Galileo were examples.