It would be fun to go back in time to this party to experience how New York society entertained in the 1850’s.
Maybe.
I wonder how aware they were in the 1800’s that in living in America in the 1800’s, they were living in one of the freest centuries the world had ever known. I would have loved just to have spent some time in that period where the feds were around 5% of the GDP, the average American was better off than any average citizen in the world, and government was not at all part of daily thinking or life. A time where you could truly “breathe free” regardless of not having our modern conveniences.