Growing up in eastern Massachusetts, Susan Snow Lukesh heard stories of ancestors from New Bedford, Massachusetts, studied the family tree of her maternal grandparents with family lineages extending back to the early seventeenth century, lived among a handful of family antiques, and was entrusted with a gold bracelet—her third great grandfather’s fiftieth wedding anniversary gift to his wife. Clearly, this instilled an abiding interest in the past and when she went to college, she elected to study the Classical Mediterranean. Ultimately, PhD in hand, she excavated prehistoric sites in Southern Italy and Sicily (1972-2000)—how much farther from her family history could she travel and yet still appreciate the study of the past?
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