Archive for November, 2008
PRESIDENT-ELECT BARACK OBAMA. ‘My tears stood for all the things I believe in’
Sunday, November 9th, 2008
I was at home with my husband and two of my three children when we found out that Barack Obama was our next president. I cried, for the renewal of the American dream. I cried for my three adopted children, all children of colour. I cried for my Italian immigrant mother who was not here to see her dream fulfilled.
WITNESSING HISTORY. How Americans share where they were and how they felt when Obama was elected.
Sunday, November 9th, 2008
At exactly 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Bonie Allen of Petaluma and her daughter, Nina Kelsey, were crossing Donner Pass “after having struggled in the dark to put on our never-before-used tire chains”.

