We returned to check out these spots by land. We went to Troy for the first time, and to Mt Ida, Limera Bay, Aulis, Sparta, and Mycenae. We went to Istanbul's Archaeological Museum , the museum in Canakkale not far from Troy and the museum in Naplion near several important Mycenaean sites. We wandered through the National Museum of Archaeology in Athens with fresh eyes. We even drove in our rental car north from Athens to find the Fortress of Aphidnae, so important in the story. Wally took pictures and I wrote in the journal.

I came home and finished the story over the next few years. It was finally published in 1997. My training and experience as a librarian (MSLS Wayne State University 1968) was a big help as was my husbands PhD in European History, with one of three specialties in Greek and Roman History.

I was born and grew up in Wausau, Wisconsin. Wally and I met at the University of Wisconsin in Madison where we both earned BAs. We have four children, all married and engaged in interests of their own. We have twelve grand-children. Over the years I have lived in Wausau, Wisconsin, Hillsboro, Texas; Berkeley California; Detroit Michigan; Paris, France; Geneva, Switzerland; Hamilton, New York; Richmond Indiana, and now. Asheville North Carolina.