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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.?...

Author: By Marc F. Aidinoff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: NPR Contributor Sarah Vowell Reads from Her New Book About Puritan History | 10/13/2008 | See Source »

The Wordy Shipmates By Sarah Vowell Riverhead; 254 pages

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Skimmer | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

As Sarah Vowell warns early on in The Wordy Shipmates, "Readers who squirm at microscopic theological differences might be unsuited to read a book about seventeenth-century Christians." She's right, for despite some lively writing, much of her tale of the settlers who founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony involves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Skimmer | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

With roughly three weeks until elections, the American cultural landscape stands on the precipice of a paradigm shift the like of which has not been seen in nearly a decade. The shift is one that will define a cultural vocabulary for the next four, if not eight years, and it...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Vowell Discovers Timeless Humor in U.S. History | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

The population today is only 25 families, most of whose adult members work for the training program. They include role players in the action scenarios, like Annalisa Kvamme, a mother of five, who played the blond woman wearing the suicide-bomber vest. Living in Playas has its challenges: six children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard: Playas | 4/3/2008 | See Source »

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