Is Christopher Columbus getting a bum rap? Has he finally been bought, packaged and sold to captive audiences as a greedy, murdering brute? Can a case be made — a convincing and well-documented case at that — proving that this now trendy, revised history of Columbus is where the myth really lies?

Columbus Day 2018, is the first where one East End board of education — the Southampton school district — has dropped Columbus’ name from the holiday altogether in their school calendar. Actually, they dropped his name three years ago, referring to the national holiday up till now simply as “no school.” This past February, however, the Southampton Board of Education voted to ignore the national holiday and rename it “Indigenous People’s Day.” In all the other East End school district calendars, the second Monday of October remains “Columbus Day.”