We made the short drive to Des Moines tonight for our second event in the Iowa Public Radio Insight Series. Sarah Vowell was the guest at the Hoyt Sherman Place, which is a very nice and ornate auditorium. The acoustical properties of the space seemed better suited to listening to someone speak when compared with listening to rock bands perform, which is what we did on our previous visit. Sarah gave a funny and interesting talk based around her writing about American history, including topics like the United States taking over Hawaii and other islands, exploring and mapping the uncharted territory of the west, and the Puritans of Massachusetts.
A bit of trivia from her introducation that I either did not know, or more likely, had known and then forgotten: Sarah Vowell voiced the character of Violet Parr, the shy teenage daughter in the animated Pixar movie The Incredibles.
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