An Evening with Sarah Vowell
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Sarah Vowell is a regular contributor to National Public Radio and the New York Times’ bestselling author of five nonfiction books on American history and culture. By examining the connections between the American past and present, she offers personal, often humorous accounts of everything from presidents and their assassins to colonial religious fanatics, as well as thoughts on American Indians, utopian dreamers, pop music and the odd cranky cartographer. Vowell’s most recent book, "Unfamiliar Fishes (2011)," is the intriguing history of our 50th state, Hawaii, annexed in 1898. Replete with a cast of beguiling and often tragic characters, including an overthrown Hawaiian queen, whalers, missionaries, sugar barons, Teddy Roosevelt and assorted con men. At Mitchell Auditorium, College of St. Scholastica. www.css.edu/mitchell.xml.