I never heard or read that Columbus ever came within miles of Washington-shouldn’t people in Seattle and the rest of the state be pissed at the explorers who actually went to their part of the continent-like maybe the French and British who romped all over Canada, and there?
MrT5 was from Seattle-2nd generation American, ethnically French with more family in Quebec than in the US-I kidnapped him when he was stationed here...
Perhaps they should be P-O’d at the ancestors of their fellow-travelers .... I believe that trappers & other despoilers of the environment from Russia used to be big players along the West coast from Alaska down thru California.
In reality, the should be celebrating George Vancouver, not the corrupt Genoese of the Caribbean.