Columbus Proposes What?

If ever a monumentally historical story was meant to be told in exquisite detail, in the context of its own time in western civilization, it is the incredible account of Christopher Columbus’s persistent championing for, and then actual, westward launch across the Atlantic Ocean. Ignore the babble of department store and online blockbuster sales that come with Columbus Day, trivialized and manipulated these days, and rescheduled to fall on a Monday, October 9, in 2023. October 12, 1492, is the actual Bahama Islands landfall date, as we all know from elementary school days. But maybe that is all that we know or have retained in the wash of modern retail consumerism. One author of scholarly history, Samuel Eliot Morison, has made ferreting out the factual, highly detailed, and entertaini…