When Woodrow Came Home

Before the museum, before the library, before the complicated legacy, there was one day in 1912 when 25,000 people packed Staunton to welcome a president-elect back to the house where he was born.

President Woodrow Wilson. Photo by Library of Congress on Unsplash

Staunton tells the Woodrow Wilson story mostly in the museum tense: the manse, the artifacts, the Pierce-Arrow limousine. What the mu…