I am soooo Excited about this! Sarah Vowell is intelligent and very, very funny! Must go!!! SHe has a terrific new book coming out called The Wordy Shipmates. The Wordy Shipmates! I love words and ships. It's perfect!
Zinger-slinging journalist, historian, author, and radio personality Sarah Vowell has spent the last several years working on The Wordy Shipmates, a book that examines the influence of John Winthrop, the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay settlement. Winthrop was a Puritan, minister, politician, pragmatist, and pamphleteer perhaps best known for his oft-quoted sermon that riffs on the scriptural "city on a hill" theme (Reagan added the "shining" part centuries later). Vowell uses Winthrop's extraordinarily complete journals as the starting point for a rollicking deconstruction of the events surrounding the founding of the New World, and weaves a tale of good intentions, hypocrisies, courage, and unexpected consequences with her uniquely sweet ferocity. – Shana Nys Dambrot
Price
$5
When
Thursday Oct 16 (7pm)
Where
All Saints Church (132 N Euclid Ave)
$5
When
Thursday Oct 16 (7pm)
Where
All Saints Church (132 N Euclid Ave)
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