We here at BHS just gathered in the kitchen to watch the Inauguration. We tried to spot our colleagues who made the trip to DC among the inspiring millions on the Mall. Oral historians sixty years from now will be saying: “Tell me what it was like to see the first black person elected President of the US…”
Interestingly, this painting, View of the Yosemite Valley (Thomas Hill, 1865), hung behind President and First Lady Obama at their Inaugural Luncheon and is on loan from the New York Historical Society.