On Sunday, writer and contributing editor Sarah Vowell called the project’s end “oddly anticlimactic,” but questioned whether work was actually complete because the show had not yet addressed the subject of “Things Ending.”
“Seeing this project through to its culmination was equally satisfying and strange,” said Vowell, speaking at a book signing in Colonial Williamsburg dressed as Betsy Ross. “I feel not unlike the early Pilgrims, who, standing atop Plymouth Rock after a long and arduous sea voyage, reflected on their journey, perhaps thinking to themselves ‘For God’s sake—doesn’t anybody have anything to eat in this settlement?’”
