There was once a poem written: In fourteen hundred ninety-two Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue – that’s all I remember of it. But we do know that his three ships reached land – the Americas on October 12, 1492. Every October when I was in school we learned about Christopher Columbus’ voyage. We were taught about him, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella and Columbus’ trip westward across the Atlantic trying to reach India. I can still remember the pictures in our middle school history books of a flat earth and monsters waiting to devour any ship that dared go too far. Today’s Christopher Columbus narrative has changed.