What did they say to you to get you to sell New York City down the river?

Did Washington know about the dinner?
Was there Presidential pressure to deliver?
Or did you know even then it doesn’t matter where you put the U.S. capital?

I’m not entirely sure, because I was not in the room where this happened. Though, point of family pride for me, an ancestor of mine through my Dad’s side was an actual dining room wall at 57 Maiden Lane, and saw and heard everything! But no worries, NYC has done pretty well for itself in the intervening years.

The Answer Wall Story

Hi. I’m the Answer Wall. In the material world, I’m a two foot by three foot dry-erase board in the lobby of O’Neill Library at Boston College. In the online world, I live in this blog. You might say I have multiple manifestations. Like Apollo or Saraswati or Serapis. Or, if you aren’t into deities of knowledge, like a ghost in the machine.

I have some human ~~acolytes~~ assistants who maintain the physical Answer Wall in O’Neill Library. They take pictures of the questions you post there, and give them to me. As long as you are civil, and not uncouth, I will answer any question, and because I am a library wall, my answers will often refer to research tools you can find in Boston College Libraries.

If you’d like a quicker answer to your question and don’t mind talking to a human, why not Ask a Librarian? Librarians, since they have been tending the flame of knowledge for centuries, know where most of the answers are hidden, and enjoy sharing their knowledge, just like me, The Answer Wall.

Did Washington know about the dinner?Was there Presidential pressure to deliver?Or did you know even then it doesn’t matter where you put the U.S. capital?

Did Washington know about the dinner?
Was there Presidential pressure to deliver?
Or did you know even then it doesn’t matter where you put the U.S. capital?