Columbus Day News

When the parade is over, whatever is left in the committee's coffers goes to local charities for children, including the Telegram & Gazette Santa Fund and the toy drive to benefit Friendly House.

At this time of year, between Columbus Day and Thanksgiving, I feel especially American.

A few weeks ago, tens of thousands of people gathered in the streets of Manhattan, as they do each year, to celebrate the legacy of Christopher Columbus, discoverer of the New World.

It seems odd that the administration has decided that classes should be held on Nov.

I think Columbus Day should be celebrated. It's a day that shows the determination to get to America and led the way for bringing everybody into America.

In an effort to share the College's mission and integrate it with a historic day, Cabrini hosted a series of events for prospective students on Columbus Day.

MINGO JUNCTION? - Mingo Junction Harmony United Methodist Women held its October meeting in the church's social hall with Mary Joy VanDyne presiding and leading the Lord's Prayer Valerie Arnold, Mary Freiling and Edna Thompson were guests.

Last week was Columbus Day, once considered a major event, the holiday has been undergoing a decline in recent years.

Gerard R. Bourassa lives in New Bedford. October 15, 2009 12:40 PM Let me sign my obscure name in huge letters to any petition that aims to do away with the anachronistic holiday celebrating Christopher Columbus.

Many Scandinavian-Americans hold it as an article of faith, or at least reason enough to ignore Columbus Day: A rock plucked from roots of a tree in Minnesota in 1898 proves the Vikings were here first.

Christopher Columbus is traditionally credited with discovering America, to the point where he was given his own federal holiday in 1934.

Summary: This is a forum sponsored by the Native American Student Association of SUNY Binghamton "There are only two federal holidays in America named after a historical figure, Martin Luther King Day and Columbus Day.

While postal workers and other federal employees enjoyed a day off for Columbus Day, a group of about 30 Native Americans took the day off, too.

CHICAGO Chicago's Annual Columbus Day Parade stepped off at Columbus Drive and Balbo, marched north on Columbus to Monroe, followed by an after-party in Grant Park featuring live music and Italian food.

They came with beach chairs, picnic blankets, walkers and wheelchairs. Throngs of Bridgeporters and suburbanites flocked to the Park City's Madison Avenue area on Sunday to celebrate Italian explorer Christopher Columbus' exploration of the New World in uniquely American fashion: by watching a parade that promoted the region's enormous diversity.

Every year on Columbus Day, the Sojourners team gathers around bagels, juice, and coffee to listen to our resident humorist and art director, Ed Spivey Jr., read an essay about Christopher Columbus.

Where are King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella when you need 'em? The choppy seas of the recession sank at least two major Columbus Day parades this year, and practical jokers spread a rumor that a third had run aground.

The Columbus Day holiday is increasingly controversial , the Wall Street Journal reports.

It was a tribute to the old country as Italian Americans honored their heritage at the Columbus Day Parade.

"Sales" is what comes to mind for most of us when we think, if we do, of Columbus Day.