Six years after its statue of Christopher Columbus was unceremoniously dumped into Baltimore’s harbor, an organization of Italian Americans has raised more than $200,000 to replace it with a new memorial with a different theme.
Six years after its statue of Christopher Columbus was unceremoniously dumped into Baltimore’s harbor, an organization of Italian Americans has raised more than $200,000 to replace it with a new memorial with a different theme.
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