In a miraculous development, the town of Garfield, New Jersey has decided to move its Christopher Columbus statue to a more prominent location within the park that bears the explorer’s name. “A statue of Christopher Columbus went on a much shorter voyage than its namesake when it was relocated within a Bergen County park on Oct. 6,” writes Kyle Morel at We The Italians. Mayor Everett Garnto said that the statue had been “out of sight, out of mind,” at its previous location near the train tracks, so it was moved to the entrance of the park. After the hellish past five and a half years with so many statues being obliterated and destroyed, for a Columbus statue to move to a more, not less, visible location is unusual and very welcome news.
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