OSTERVILLE – In the vaulted library at Cape Cod Academy, the only applause for President Joe Biden’s inaugural speech came from the audio accompanying a screen display.
The 18 students and several faculty members viewing the ceremonies remained silent during the introduction of Kamala Harris, the nation’s first Black and first South Asian and first woman vice president.
A pin could have been heard dropping for a poetry recitation by Amanda Gorman, at age 22 the youngest poet laureate in the nation’s history and an individual not much older than the teens watching the inauguration.
The silence wasn’t due to a lack of enthusiasm, a group of freshmen said as they left the library at the end of their study period.