C. G. ESTABROOK has degrees in history and the study of religion (A.B., A.M., and Ph.D., all from Harvard University) and has taught at Brown, Notre Dame, and the University of Rochester, as well as Harvard. He has recently retired as a Visiting Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where his wife was dean of the School of Library and Information Science; he also taught in the departments of history and religious studies at UIUC. They have five grown children and two grandchildren.  Estabrook is an avocational actor who has written theatrical reviews and political columns for local and national media; he has conducted weekly radio and television programs on community station WEFT and Urbana Public Television, one on politics (“News from Neptune”) and the other on theatre and poetry (“From Bard to Verse”). He has spoken and written on history, religion, poetry, psychology, Shakespeare, and U.S. foreign policy.  He was the Green party’s candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in Illinois’ 15th Congressional District in 2002.