Today we celebrate Leif Erikson, the Viking explorer who established the legendary city of Norumbega, in the year 1000, in what we now call Massachusetts. This, according to Eben Norton Horsford, the man who gave us Rumsford Baking Powder. Sometime after this great invention, Horsford's longboat ran aground on Wackjob Island. He commissioned this wonderful statue of the discoverer of Boston (and inventor of the iron brassiere) that stands today on the Commonwealth Avenue Mall.
Truly one of my favorite things in New England
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