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Collected Item: “Joe Biden becomes president-elect”

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Joe Biden becomes president-elect

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Photo from Giant Sequoia National park and screenshot

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These photos represent my experience of the day that Biden was declared president-elect. I happened to be near a family member during the election, so I stayed with them, so it was easy to have access to watching the news, but after four days of being glued to the results, I needed to get back on the road for my own sanity. On the morning of the 6th, I felt confident enough in the numbers in Georgia and Pennsylvania that they were going to continue to be in Biden’s favor to leave service behind and go into Yosemite national park. I wanted to be able to listen to the news while I was in the park, so I screenshot the local radio stations while I still had service, but they all ended up being either conservative stations that weren’t reporting on the results, or Spanish speaking stations. The next day I woke up to the news that the associated press had called the election for Biden, and celebrated in Giant Sequoia National Park, while I was there, I wrote Biden in the snow as a way to celebrate and feel in community with other people also on the trails. This was an important day for American history, and while my experience was not something particularly significant, It could be an interesting story to a future historian researching how people responded to the election.

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#HST241, #CovidMiniCollection, #Suffolk, #GiantSequoias #Yosemite #election #election results #Biden2020 #vanlife

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https://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/locate?select=city&city=yosemite+valley&x=10&y=7

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Photo taken by Ainslee Moorehead, screenshot from the website radio-locator.com

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2020-11-06
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