Introducing Sari

Hello! My name is Sari Mauro and I’m a senior undergraduate student at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania interning at the Library.

While here, I have been working to turn Peggy Bendroth's Congregational walking tour into a self-guided version. Working from Peggy's notes, I have been organizing, researching, writing and photographing my way through 13 sites of Congregational interest located near the Library.

Working on this tour has been simultaneously fun and confusing, but always interesting. I have learned a lot: from Anne Hutchinson and the antinomian controversy to the history of the Congregational Library to the various confusing splits and mergers associated with Second Church in the North End, not a moment of this project has been dull. Through my research and sightseeing I have gained new insight into Colonial Massachusetts Bay which has given me a new and better knowledge of names and histories I've only superficially known. The knowledge I’ve gained here working on this tour has already helped me as I work on my Honors Thesis for Elizabethtown (which, incidentally, is on the Puritans), and simply seeing the sights where John Cotton and Anne Hutchinson used to live and where churches used to stand has helped to cement the history in my mind.

I hope you will check the tour out next time you're looking for something to do in Boston, and I hope you enjoy the finished product as much as I have enjoyed helping to produce it!

-Sari

 

The tour booklet mentioned is still in process. Please stay tuned to hear when it is available. -Jessica

Comments

[Karlee]

Located on your listing/brief summary of the Baldwins, it says that Charlotte Folwer Baldwin married Dwight in 1820 and left for the Sandwich (Hawiian Islands in 1830). They were married in Dec. of 1830, not 1820 - this is most likely a typo but I did want to bring it to your attention. All my sources have said they were married in Decmeber 1830 and a few weeks later, still in Dec. 1830, they left for the islands.