Time To Re-Think Our Shared Past? Pioneer Park or Peoples' Park

Public sculptures in the New Urban DTMesa may be frequently cast in bronze, yet at the same time it is good not to keep from the public vision "those who came before" . . . History means different things to different people.
Take for example the 500th Anniversary of the Discovery of The New World by Christopher Columbus back in 1492.
It's what we were taught, right?
Your MesaZona will leave it to readers to THINK MORE about the great city we call home and keep in mind this was home to many people before the pioneers arrived late-on-the-scene in the mid-1850's.
We simply cannot ignore all the centuries before that.
The "pioneers" were latter-day arrivals.

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