Annie Smith Peck: from Downstreet to Peck’s Peak
This descendant of Roger Williams who graduated from Classical High school and RI College went on to become a pioneering archaeologist in Greece in the 1880's. She was a powerful role model for women who "thought outside the box" and became a popular lecturer. At 45 she switched careers and began climbing mountains. When she died in 1935, she held the record for climbing the highest mountain in the western Hemisphere.
Susan Heuck Allen is a classical archaeologist focusing on the history of archaeology. She teaches at Smith College and is a visiting scholar at Brown University. She chairs the Women in Archaeology Interest Group and is the past Chair of the Archives Committee of the Archaeological Institute of America and past President of its Narragansett Society. She serves locally on the boards of RICH and has served on that of the Providence Athenaeum. She has worked in Turkey, Greece, Cyprus, and Israel, and swam the Hellespont, from Asia to Europe in 1997. Ms. Heuck Allen’s first book, Finding the Walls of Troy, received both scholarly and popular acclaim with the History Book Club. Her book Excavating Our Past (2002) looks at the history of American archaeologists.
Needs: lighted lectern and either carousel projector or power point set up/water