Monday October 12th is Indigenous Peoples Day. If you miss the parade, you likely missed the one for Leif Erikson on October 9th, which was also the anniversary of John Lennon’s birthday—but be patient, I will connect the dots. Today, an emotionally skewed country celebrates the day in 1492, when Christopher Columbus discovered America. […]
As an author I’m learning my industry is not much different than it was in 1507. Because some 60 years after the discovery of movable type, curiosity about sea voyages of the previous two decades was escalating and an enterprising author named Martin Waldseemuller, decided to publish rudimentary maps of the new lands reached […]