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Marlowe Tyson Peck

Marlowe T. Peck briefly beatified with her own halo at the Chalet à Roch Dessus, August 2002.

Young Marlowe entered the Vale of Tears in Aigle, Switzerland, on 14 November 1984 and was immediately named after the brilliant poet/playwright/spy Christopher Marlowe, 1564-1593 (right), because "Shakespeare" as a first-name sounded just too goofy. The civil registrar in Aigle was not at all comfortable recording a name so obviously not on the Saints List, but once reminded of Marlo Thomas's very brief run with a half-hour TV sitcom in the 1960s, he accepted it as a common American prenom.

From almost her earliest years, Marlowe has pursued a sophisticated taste in music, principally Jethro Tull (left), along with Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Alan Parsons Project, Dire Straits, Deep Purple, and Mike Oldfield. Latterly, however, her musical interests have leapt to a new plateau, including Rammstein, Godsmack, Bloodhound Gang, Linkin Park, Papa Roach, Kittie, Slipknot, System of a Down, Alien Ant Farm, Staind, Disturbed, Cold, In Extremo, Incubus, Static-X, and Limp Bizkit.

Having spent her first six years or so in the ski resort of Leysin, Switzerland, hanging out in all her spare moments with the other kids of working parents at the farm with wonderful Tatie ("auntie") in Crettaz (right), she then went to join her mother in the village of Vufflens-la-Ville north of Lausanne. (The village of Vufflens-la-Ville is the one without the château; the village of Vufflens-la-Château, not too far away, is the one that has the château.)

In 1996, however, Marlowe and her mom flitted off to England, in the United Kingdom, not far from London. Neither of them was superbly happy with England, by the sound of it, but at least The Wee One became a seasoned "unaccompanied minor" air traveler whilst visiting her Old Dad in Switzerland, building up frequent flyer miles every other weekend for three years or so. Lamentably for some of us, she then shuffled along to the USA in 1999, and set up shop with her mother Jane Wilson and stepdad Elliott somewhere north of Philadelphia, in a nice very old house with its own swimming pool, hoopla-ho!

Marlowe's longtime goal, since about the age of eight, had been to become an Egyptologist. On more than one occasion she has astonished her Dad's friends and casual passers-by by strolling into the Egyptian rooms of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and explaining rhapsodically all or most of the exhibits, whilst art patrons trying to follow along in the guidebooks began to murmur and put the guidebooks back in the satchel and tag along behind her. But now, new enthusiasms have intervened, and she's presently studying languages and literature in university in Ottawa, Canada. (Her Dad grew up wanting to be a cowboy -- that didn't work out at all!!! At a later point, he dreamt of becoming a high school track coach, somewhere in the grand US heartland -- so much for dreams.) Click on the photos to proceed.

Marlowe getting married, 2006 (supported by Dad and Mom on either side)

As photos accumulate (as they tend to do), Marlowe's Dad will post some of his favorite scans here, as the new century progresses, or the first part of it anyway -- then she's on her own.

But in the meantime . . . here are the collections so far.

Hiking in the mountains, 1992

Marlowe and family members standing unadvisedly on a lightning target at the Langmuir Lightning Laboratory on South Baldy mountain, New Mexico, USA, 1997.

Marlowe and Dad at the Trient Glacier, 1999

Marlowe expressing her views on rain, near Mont Tendre, July 2000	Marlowe doing her gnome impressions in mismatched gaiters, January 2001.

With Dad, Pennsylvania, USA, April 2003

Marlowe in Switzerland for Christmas 2004

Marlowe spent November 2000 in Peru -- her photo essay on Lake Titicaca (above) is available on the Ramsar Web site, and

At Ramsar COP8 in Valencia, Spain, November 2002, one of many panels of the University of Valencia (Spain) SEHUMED's superb exhibition on culture and wetlands, on view in the main corridor of the Museum of Science. Note that cute photo of Lake Titicaca in the upper center . . .

. . . by Marlowe Tyson Peck.

Mar and Dad, 2006

Lisa and Marlowe, January 2005

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