Mayor Ben Walsh wants to talk about how we remember Christopher Columbus in Syracuse. Walsh partnered recently with the non-for-profit InterFaith Works to convene a series of "dialog circles" about Columbus remembrance. City Hall and Interfaith will issue a joint report detailing the recommendations of those discussions next year. 

Nationwide, communities have wrestled with how to celebrate Columbus, the Italian explorer who crossed the Atlantic and landed on several islands in the Caribbean in the 15th century. Columbus is typically credited with discovering America, though he never set foot on the American mainland.