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Crowds packed into the First Parish Church on Saturday to hear Sarah Vowell, a contributor to NPR’s “This American Life,” discuss the Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, or, as she called them, “bickering Jesus freaks...
Vowell read from her new book, “The Wordy Shipmates,” a humorous historical account of the Massachusetts Bay Colonists, and answered questions from a lighthearted audience at the event organized by the Harvard Book Store...
...Boston Crème. The posh new Mandarin Oriental opened adjacent to the Prudential Center in Boston's Back Bay this week. The 136 rooms feature 42-in. televisions, rainfall showerheads and walk-in closets. The 12 suites, including an ultraluxe 2,600-sq.-ft. Presidential Suite, have Jacuzzis in the marble bathrooms as well as a 15-in. TV. The hotel will eventually have a spa (its opening was delayed by fire during construction). To celebrate the hotel's launch, it's offering a "We Fan Boston" package, giving guests a free night for every two-or-more-night...
...landmark ruling, a federal judge ordered the Bush Administration to immediately release 17 Muslims from Guantnamo Bay and bring them to the U.S. The captives, members of China's Uighur ethnic minority, haven't been considered enemy combatants since 2004 but remained at Gitmo because no country except China would take them. (The detainees' lawyers insist the captives would be tortured in their homeland.) The ruling, which faces appeal, could pave the way for more detainee releases...
...most importantly, its passion for history—and enriches them. Free from that last book’s novel yet somewhat extraneous framing device, “The Wordy Shipmates” dives right into its historical focus, the life and times of the founders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Among the vaunted cast of America’s founding patriarchs (and matriarchs), the icons of John Winthrop, Roger Williams, John Endicott, and Anne Hutchinson are increasingly obscure—and Vowell knows it. But their virtual anonymity in the American cultural lexicon leaves them as blank slates...