Interview w/Authors Zeller & Dallam: Religion, Food, and Eating in North America

Dave Krueger talks with Benjamin Zeller and Marie Dallam about their new book Religion, Food, and Eating in North America. Dallam is an assistant professor of religious studies at the Honors College of the University of Oklahoma and Zeller is an assistant professor of Lake Forest College in Illinois. This interview was originally released as … Continue reading Interview w/Authors Zeller & Dallam: Religion, Food, and Eating in North America

Writing in the Margins: Book Enhancement as a Path to the Divine

Thomas Connary was an Irish immigrant who loved books, particularly Catholic devotional literature. He had over two hundred in his library - a rare thing for a New England farmer in the nineteenth century. Connary spent countless hours modifying his books by writing notes in the margins, pressing flowers between the pages, and adding clippings of … Continue reading Writing in the Margins: Book Enhancement as a Path to the Divine