It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
Bio: Mary Rowlandson, née White, later Mary Talcott was a colonial American woman who was captured by Native Americans during King Philip's War and held for 11 weeks before being ransomed.
