The Wordy Shipmates

Sarah Vowell In Town

2 Comments / Books, Brown / By Beth Comery / 10/29/2009 / History, Roger Williams, Sarah Vowell, The Wordy Shipmates

Sarah Vowell is speaking tonight at Brown University promoting the paperback edition of her book The Wordy Shipmates which I am reading right now and enjoying very much. She has an original take on the whole Puritan thang and where Roger Williams fits in (or doesn’t) with the early New Englanders. (Vowell has also written …

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Attention Netops

2 Comments / Local Yokels, Television / By Beth Comery / 10/06/2009 / jon stewart, plantations, Roger Williams, Sarah Vowell, The Daily Show, The Wordy Shipmates, Virginia Heffernan

A little strange and oddly pleasant to check in with ‘The Daily Show’ and find Jon Stewart and his guest Sarah Vowell discussing Rhode Island and Roger Williams. (Go here for October 5th episode.) She is flogging the paperback edition of her recent book The Wordy Shipmates, and she is still a huge Roger Williams …

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