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Asturias Days

Asturias Days

American writer Clellan Coe, who has lived on the windswept northern coast of Spain for many years, sees her surroundings as both an insider and an outsider.

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Curiosity

Curiosity

by Clellan Coe | Friday, October 11, 2019
Las Tetas de Liérganes

Las Tetas de Liérganes

by Clellan Coe | Friday, October 04, 2019
Please Release Me

Please Release Me

by Clellan Coe | Friday, September 27, 2019
De Todos Modos

De Todos Modos

by Clellan Coe | Friday, September 20, 2019
Tomar en Dos Veces

Tomar en Dos Veces

by Clellan Coe | Friday, September 13, 2019
The Bland Act

The Bland Act

by Clellan Coe | Friday, September 06, 2019
The Queens’ Tea

The Queens’ Tea

by Clellan Coe | Friday, August 30, 2019
Hello, Goodbye

Hello, Goodbye

by Clellan Coe | Friday, August 23, 2019
Playing

Playing

by Clellan Coe | Friday, August 16, 2019
Secret Door

Secret Door

by Clellan Coe | Friday, August 09, 2019
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What Does Columbus Day Really Mean?

by William J. Connell

Whether you celebrate Columbus Day or Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Discoverers’ Day, or Native Americans’ Day, historian William J. Connell observes that, in the end, this controversial civic holiday is just that: a holiday. In his essay “What Columbus Day Really Means,” Connell writes that President Benjamin Harrison created the holiday in 1892 to honor both Native Americans and the many immigrants who were only then arriving in the country. “It was to be a national holiday that was not about the Founding Fathers or the Civil War, but about the rest of American history,” Connell writes—a day for celebrating the country and all its people. Sounds to us like a pretty good reason to take the day off of work.