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Five hundred years after Columbus first set foot in the Americas, Joseph Cervetto Jr., portraying the Genoese navigator in San Francisco’s Columbus Day celebration, will re-enact the landing on the city’s waterfront.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 18, 2020

Local theater troupes including the Eckley Players will re-enact scenes from the movie.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 26, 2017

For some, he will re-enact the iconic scene and play catch, as he did recently for a professor in Illinois.

From Washington Times • Jun. 24, 2017

This ’90s college-rock sensation will re-enact its 1993 album, “Last Splash.”

From Seattle Times • Sep. 1, 2013

Next October as a prelude to the Washington bicentennial, a pageant at Yorktown will re-enact the scene that ended the Revolution.

From Time Magazine Archive