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Where the City Came From Your skimmer item on Sarah Vowell's The Wordy Shipmates [Oct. 20] states that the phrase "city on a hill" was coined by John Winthrop, the first governor of Massachusetts. Not so. Winthrop was quoting Jesus' Sermon on the Mount: "[The righteous] are the light...
She's an on-air chronicler of American lives, a former Incredible (the voice behind Violet's bangs) and the author of The Wordy Shipmates, out this month, which finds the quirk in America's Puritan heritage. Here's what's on Vowell's short list this fall.
Audience members asked Vowell questions ranging from her favorite TV shows to the state of history education in the United States. She expressed a fear that the school system wrings all the interest out of history.
But Vowell said that she has always found history intriguing having grown up in a family of history buffs. “History wasn’t something that happened to other people, but something that happened to everyone,” she said.