Deer Season

How time flies when you’re having fun! Seems like only yesterday that Christopher Columbus sailed into New York City or was it Miami on his ships, the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria.

As children we always celebrated Columbus as the great explorer who found the United States. Well, the story has changed.

On October 12th, in 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue as the poem goes. Now the historians and the know-it-alls say no way, but maybe they can agree the ocean still looks like it is blue.

Give or take a few hundred others who claim fame to founding the New World as it was referred to back in the day and then realized who was actually already here.

Native American Indians were probably down by the sea shore sifting sea sand when the explorers sailed in to DISCOVER them. Alas, the Indians proclaimed, “At last we have been discovered.”

Revisionists enjoy revising and changing what we have learned and it doesn’t help much if you were wanting to attend a Columbus Day parade or if you lived in Columbus, Ohio or any of the other many towns named for the famous Italian. Leave our holidays alone, there are so few now.

Next they will start hacking away at another iconic hero holiday, St. Patrick’s Day and you don’t want to get the Irish mad at you too.

One thing these reimaging historians will never touch is the Jasper County Deer Festival. Yes, deer do live here and it is a festival, so we are probably safe, but I can’t say the same for the deer.