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Herrold is also a daytime clerk for law firm Sarrouf, Tarricone and Fleming, which did close for Columbus Day. "The only significance [the holiday] had for me was I got to sleep in today," he said...
Italian-Americans in the North End were some of the few commemorating yesterday as an important holiday. Many said Columbus Day was second only to Christmas in their community...
...makes me proud to be an Italian because Columbus not only discovered America, he gave America an Italian name," said Franco Graceffa, proprietor of the North End restaurant Dolce Vita. Graceffa even offered a Columbus Day special yesterday--cannelloni stuffed with spinach and topped with lobster meat and ricotta cheese...
Italians gathered Sunday to celebrate the occasion with the annual Columbus Day parade...
...People still say Columbus 'discovered' America, as if there were no indigenous people here already," Lawson said. "I would like to see it called Indigenous People's Day, as I believe it is called in Berkeley and in some other communities across the country...