It looks like something from a ghost story or a horror movie, doesn't it?
Granted, I've never actually seen a horror movie (a Titanic museum gave me nightmares).
But still!
I can fill in the blanks.
A-couple-of-teenagers-go-on-a-road-trip-and-end-up-in-the-middle-of-nowhere-with-a-serial-killer.
Isn't that the plot?
But this picture is nothing of the sort.
Nah, it's just James Buchanan's inauguration picture.
I saw the original in D.C.
And I want you to look at it as closely as I did.
All those people.
They were real.
And that is awesome.
In a place like D.C., a person like me gets swept away in the never-ending stories....
...my mother had to literally drag me out of an exhibit at 3 pm to go eat lunch...
...my favorite show (that I never get to see because we don't have cable) is "American Pickers"...
...in between trips to hotels and friend's houses with cable, I settle for "History Detectives" and "Antiques Roadshow"....
...and I have a shirt from the Lincoln Library that says, "I {heart} History," for Pete's sake.
This picture has so many wonderful stories in it.
It represents everything I {heart}.
Which is why, when anyone asks what I plan to do after high school...
...the only thing I say is, "I'm going to college to major in American History."
Maybe one of these days, I'll be working in one of those museums I love so much.
And I'll be saving the world from the bad things it used to be, one fourth grade field trip at a time.
