![]() Years of movies and books about the Salem Witch Trials would give anyone a dim view of that bunch of immigrants. ![]() Vowell makes repeated allusions to how little we Americans know about our history and how erroneous our view of the Puritans is. Vowell’s history revolves around John Winthrop, on the first governors of the Massachusetts colony, and his struggles with trying to create a “city on a hill” while dealing with rightfully angry natives, fanatical and not so fanatical Puritans, and the harshness of the climate. The Wordy Shipmates is an informal history of the Puritans who arrived in Massachusetts in the 1630s and 1640s, after the Pilgrims and the Jamestown colonists. ![]() Not just because Sarah Vowell is a very entertaining and erudite speaker, but because the book is written in such a way that it feels like you’re having a long conversation with the author. ![]() I wish I could have experienced this as an audio book. ![]()
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