While celebrating Columbus Day, Ralph Wein, the brother of Noel Wein and co-founder of Alaska’s first airline, Wein Air Alaska, crashed in full view of onlookers in Kotzebue on October 2th, 1930. Aboard his aircraft, a Bellanca, that day were Fr. Philip Delon, Superior General of Alaskan Catholic missions, and Fr. William Walsh, a diocesan […]
WASHINGTON — The United States observes its Columbus Day holiday on Monday as well Indigenous Peoples Day. Columbus Day has been a federal holiday since 1971 to celebrate the 1492 landing of Christopher Columbus in the Americas. Recognition of the violence, disease and other suffering inflicted by European nations on the people already living in the […]
WASHINGTON—In the United States, October 12 is significant as the date explorer Christopher Columbus discovered the Americas.The achievement, which is commemorated on the second Monday of October, is a source of pride, particularly within the Italian-American community because Columbus was Italian. But for some the holiday is marked by controversy. John Viola, president of the […]