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Last week: Christopher Columbus statue in Pueblo
The winner: David Becker, Pueblo:
Columbus sailed the ocean blue
Found America with great crescendo!
The bust in the photo for public review
To Indians’ great ire and chagrin
In Pueblo, on the 100 block of East Abriendo.
Robert McClellan, Arvada: Christopher Columbus stands facing the new library on Abriendo at the Mesa Junction in Pueblo, where I was born and raised. I figure I passed it at least 3,960 times going to and from the three schools I attended. Each year a little band played, a wreath was laid, clapping, and everyone went on with their lives. It was a simple time.
Orville Wright, Broomfield: Although my hometown is Salida, my folks frequently visited Pueblo from the early ’40s through the late ’50s. At the time, there was a turntable in the middle of the street where the trolley cars from the South Side and Downtown routes were turned around – both routes came together at that location. That’s where the local name of “The Junction” came from. My wife and I moved to Pueblo in 1961. When our daughter came along, she and mother made almost weekly trips to the library. Columbus became a familiar sight. Our daughter is an adult now – older than I better divulge – but she still remembers seeing Christopher Columbus at the library.
Rob Waggener, Pueblo: The statue looks out at the new Pueblo Library, the Arkansas River and historic Pueblo. I could ride my bike as a child, without any hands, from my home to enjoy a chocolate Coke, a wonderful bakery at the old shopping area, and see the statue perched high in the median on Abriendo Street at “The Junction.”
Margaret McDonald, Pueblo: A wreath-laying ceremony is held by Italians in Pueblo every Columbus Day, and every Columbus Day for the past 15 years or so, the ceremony is interrupted by protesters who want the holiday abolished. We have enough Italians here to support two separate Columbus Day dinners in the evening, and they are not about to give up with their celebration.
