REVISITING: Happy (?) European Invaders Day

Doncha know me? I'm your native son. WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY PETER MOORE

I WAS BORN HERE.

Well, not here, because I’m sitting in my 1904 barn, in Fort Collins, Colorado.

By here I mean: this continent. Specifically, in glamorous Bridgeport, Connecticut, where P.T. Barnum said a sucker was born every minute. And my people have been in place in New England for many generations. Three of my relatives arrived on the Mayflower in…