Brown Bag@Congregational Library, Boston

David Hall talked about his book A Reforming People at the

Congregational Library on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012. Many

came from various parts of New England. Most were

Congregational Church members including ministers.

David Hall and Rev. Dan Smith (Minister, First Church

Congregational, Cambridge) after the Brown Bag. In

the final chapter, a close case study analysis on New Town

(Cambridge) is attempted.

Acc. to Hall, the early New England was not much like a

Libertarian laissez-faire society but a community based on

mutual help. Tea Party interpretation of New England

Puritanism does not seem to agree with Hall's analysis.