Atlanta GA to Columbus OH: 27th April 1999

Atlanta to Columbus✈️: 27.4.1999
Delta #DL2126 MD-88 (N901DL) boarding at Gate B7 - on time
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the world's busiest hub*
Celebrating #freedomday 🇿🇦 in 🇺🇸skies✈️ from Georgia to Ohio👌💓
Amazing five days, April 27 to May 1, attending 68th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA) - Hyatt Regency Hotel Columbus.
Highlights of the congress were:
1. Talk on 28th April Wednesday by Prof Jeffrey T Laitman of Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York: ”By a preponderance of the evidence Neanderthal upper respiratory tract differed from that of living humans”.
2. Plenary lecture on 29th April Thursday evening by Dr David Barker, Director of the MRC Environmental Epidemiology Unit at Southampton General Hospital, whose talk "Fetal Origins of Disease in Later Life" focused on potential associations between in utero development and chronic degenerative diseases later in life, undoubtedly a subject of great interest to many members.
3. To a warm welcome by AAPA Vice President Dr Mark Teaford, the annual luncheon address on 30th April Friday afternoon "Challenges and Opportunities for Funding Physical Anthropology Research in the 21st Century" was delivered by Dr Bennett Bertenthal, Assistant Director of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences at the National Science Foundation, an exciting chance to hear about changes in funding priorities and possibilities in Anthropology at NSF*💓
Between sessions, I took time to visit the 9-foot-tall, 150 pound “Columbus Discovery Monument”, the first statue of Christopher Columbus to be placed in the city, originally housed at the Pontifical College Josephinum on the eastside. It was commissioned in 1892 by local resident Monsignor Joseph Jessing to commemorate the 400-year anniversary of the explorer’s first voyage across the Atlantic, and moved to Capitol Square on the grounds of Ohio Statehouse in 1932. The base for the statue was created in 1992 to mark the 500-year jubilee attended by the mayor of Columbus, governor of Ohio, as well as the mayor of Genoa and governor of Liguria, the explorer's birthplace.
Columbus has been increasingly linked not to a legacy of exploration and discovery, but to the violent colonization that followed his arrival in the Americas, and the catastrophic effect that it had on existing civilizations which has since become a focal point for racial justice protests😭 In light of his abusive relationship with indigenous inhabitants, his other 20-foot-tall metal statue that had stood in front the the City Hall for some 69 years, gift from the city of Genoa, was removed in 2020.
Two blocks away anchored to the east bank of the Scioto River, just north of the Broad St Bridge, is “Santa Maria Ship & Museum”, full-size replica of the flagship (one of three ships) Christopher Columbus sailed on in 1492. Built in 1991 to celebrate the 500th anniversary in 1992, it remained moored to Battelle Riverfront Park until 2014.
From her deck, you can view “Salt-Lick Town”, the former indigenous Native American Mingo village that once stood on this entire property, 2 miles south of downtown where North Bank Park is. It was destroyed in 1774 by white settlers of the English Colony of Virginia led by Col Willliam Crawford😭, the final time an American colonial militia took to the field in His Majesty’s service under the royal command of John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore and governor of Virginia (aka Lord Dunmore's War).
This is after Chief Logan of Cayuga tribe who joined the Mingoes and Shawnees refused to accept the terms of the “Treaty of Camp Charlotte” which forced them to relinquish all their lands east and south of Ohio River. The militia shot indiscriminately slaughtering the Shawnee and Mingo families - women, children and elderly, while the men were out hunting😭 Dunmore's treaty pledged to keep Native America north of the Ohio River and colonial America to the south of it, but within a few months, England was at war with its own colonies and Dunmore had fled to the safety of his homeland.
A short walk from here is German Village, a historic neighbourhood just south of downtown. Initially founded in 1814 in Columbus’s South End, the area developed between 1840 and 1914. It was settled largely by German immigrants in the mid-1800s, whose descendants at one time comprised as much as a third of the population of the entire city. The area is defined by its brick homes and shops, as well as brick-lined streets*👌
The Brewery District can be found west of German Village. Soon after the opening of the breweries, homes were built in the area to house brewery workers; many of these historical homes with carved stone lintels, round, curved windows and doors are just a few examples of architectural elements that are preserved in the district that has become home to the city’s bustling scene full of lively entertainment, bars & dining options along High Street*👌

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