Richard Bowen (1594?-1675), of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, and his descendants

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by  Saxbe, William Bart, 1941-

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Ancestors
W
HEN YOU LOOK IN THE MIRROR you see not just your face but
a museum. Although your face, in one sense, is your own, it
is composed of a collage of features you have inherited from your
parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, and so on. The lips
and eyes that either bother or please you are not yours alone but
are also features of your ancestors, long dead perhaps as
individuals but still very much alive as fragments in you. Even
complex qualities such as your sense of balance, musical abilities,
shyness in crowds, or susceptibility to sickness have been lived
before. We carry the past around with us all the time, and not just
in our bodies. It lives also in our customs, including the way we
speak. The past is a set of invisible lenses we wear constantly, and
through these we perceive the world and the world perceives us.
We stand always on the shoulders of our ancestors, whether or not
we look down to acknowledge them.
It is disconcerting to realize how few of our ancestors most of
us can recognize or even name. You have four great¬
grandmothers, women sufficiently close to you genetically that
you see elements of their faces, and skin, and hair each time you
see your reflection. Each had a maiden name she heard spoken
thousands of times, and yet you probably cannot recall any one of
their maiden names. If we are lucky, we may find their birth
names in genealogies or documents, although war, migration, and
destroyed records have made that impossible for many
Americans. Our four great-grandmothers had full lives, families,
and bequeathed to us many of our most personal qualities, but we
have lost those ancestors so completely that we cannot even name
them. How many of us can imagine being so utterly forgotten just
three generations from now by our own descendants that they
remember nothing of us—not even our names?
— David W. Anthony, The Horse, the Wheel, and Language
(Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2007), 3-4.
Used by permission.
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