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      As President Barack Obama readies for his second term, popular historian Kenneth C. Davis joins us with an Inauguration Day history lesson.

Davis is author of the “Don’t Know Much About History” series and his new book is Don't Know Much About® the American Presidents.

Whoever wins the U.S. presidency, an upstate New York bottler will be a winner.

U.S. Senator Charles Schumer says that water from the Saratoga Springs Water Co. will be served at the presidential inauguration.

Schumer is chairman of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies. He says Saratoga Water and its iconic blue bottle will be the official water of the historic ceremonies, regardless of who wins the November election.

Jonathan Lash will be inaugurated this Friday  as the sixth president of Hampshire College. Lash was an environmental attorney, and a former Vermont State Secretary of Natural Resources.  Former Vice President Al Gore will deliver a speech at the inauguration.  WAMC”s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill spoke with Lash.