The Memory Painter

He had walked for hours until he’d looked up and found himself on Commonwealth Street. It was no accident. There, erected in a circular garden, was a life-size bronze statue of Leif Erikson, commemorating his explorations. Leif had found the new land just as Bjarni had instructed him and had created a settlement called “Vinland,” what was now Canada. Some had thought that Leif had explored even farther, reaching Massachusetts hundred of years before the Pilgrims.