Gilligan's Gourmet: Columbus Day recipe - sausage, cheese and basil lasagna

Today is Columbus Day, unless you live in Nevada, California, Hawaii or South Dakota, then it’s just a regular Monday, even though it is Native Americans Day in South Dakota and Indigenous Peoples Day in California you still have to go to work. Bummer.

In Hawaii Columbus Day is also known as Landing Day or Discoverer's Day and in Nevada I believe it’s Tiffany, Peaches and Chardonnay’s laundry day.

Many banks, state and local offices as well as U.S. post offices and schools will be closed., it’s a long weekend peeps, the last ‘hurrah’ of the summer {unless you live in Nevada, California, Hawaii or South Dakota, then it’s just work as usual}

Among the biggest celebrations is in New York where the Columbus Day Parade will starts on Fifth Avenue at 44th Street and continues up Fifth to 79th Street where it concludes with a Columbus Day Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral at 50th Street and Fifth Avenue. How it concludes in the middle is beyond me.
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The Columbus Citizens Foundation has been organizing New York's Columbus Day Parade since 1929. More than 35,000 participate in the parade each year, including more than 100 groups sporting floats, bands and an assortment of entries. Some one million spectators view the parade -- including almost 500,000 lining the streets to watch live -- and it is among the largest celebrations of Italian-American culture in the world.

“It’s, like, even bigger than The Jersey Shore”

Christopher Columbus is often portrayed as the first European to sail to the Americas. He is sometimes portrayed as the discoverer of the New World. However, this is controversial on many counts. There is evidence that the first Europeans to sail across the Atlantic were Viking explorers from Scandinavia. In addition, the land was already populated by indigenous peoples, who had 'discovered' the Americas thousands of years before.

Columbus Day originated as a celebration of Italian-American heritage and was first held in San Francisco in 1869. The first state-wide celebration was held in Colorado in 1907. In 1937, Columbus Day become a holiday across the United States. Since 1971, it has been celebrated on the second Monday in October. The date on which Columbus arrived in the Americas is also celebrated as the Día de la Raza (Day of the Race) in Latin America and some Latino communities in the USA. However, it is a controversial holiday in some countries and has been re-named in others.

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