We had a front row seat on Monday to witness the latest page of history written by the new breed of City Fathers under Mayor Graeme Outerbridge who caused a revolution during the May elections.Calling themselves “Team Hamilton”, they swept into office and put paid to the last vestiges of the centuries-old gerrymandered voting system that enabled generations of oligarchs and their first families of bankers, wily old lawyers and segregationist businessmen to seize and hold the reins of power at both the national and municipal levels.The May elections were the first ever held on the “one man, one vote of equal value” procedures imposed by the central government on the municipalities.Back to Monday’s historic event. One look at the programme revealed it was to be an “Inaugural Installation Ceremony,” There was to be singing and praying with no fewer than four bishops and other clergy officiating.We have to confess another one of those “sentimental tsunamis” began overwhelming the author, just by looking at the program. We imagined the oligarchs of old turning over in their graves, and their modern-day bloggers having fits, wondering “what’s happening” to their hallowed City Hall; and trying to determine whether there was to be an anointing of the new breed, or an exorcism of the old.It became clear it was to be an anointing after the Town Crier, Ed Christopher, in superb voice, made a statement of purpose and presented the Mistress of Ceremonies, Alderman Gwyneth Rawlins. She is a senior worship leader at the nearby Emmanuel Baptist Church.In turn the MC called on Mayor Outerbridge to extend a welcome to the audience that included such dignitaries as the new Governor, George Fergusson and his niece; Premier Paula Cox and her husband; St George’s Mayor Kenneth Bascome; and Cabinet Ministers Dame Jennifer Smith and Zane DeSilva..Clergymen sharing the podium with the Corporation Aldermen and Common Councilors were Anglican Bishop of Bermuda, Dr. Patrick White; Bishop Dr. Isiah Johnson and Bishop Dr. Vernon Lambe. Bishop Dr. Lloyd Duncan was scheduled to make challenging remarks, but illness forced his absence. Elder Keven Santucci, the spiritual advisor to the Corporation of Hamilton, was scheduled to extend “The Leader’s Challenge”.Iit turned out to out to be a highly cultural and inspiring pro gramme with the Mass Choir of the Seventh-day Adventist church rendering the anthem ‘Total Praise” followed by solos by Glen Iris, rendering “Pray With Me Now” and Toni Robinson “We are Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things”.The big moment came when the clergymen laid hands on the Corporation Members, anointing them with oil.