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Elizabeth (middle) at a children’s garden party at her house in Jamaica in August 1972.

Elizabeth, in local school uniform, with her grandfather, painting the front gate at their house in Jamaica in 1971.

A typical day’s outing for the Wein family in Jamaica in 1972, in their Vauxhall Victor. Elizabeth (left) is in her bathing suit, wedged between the car seats and the window, pictured with her baby sister, Maria, (middle), and her mother’s best friend’s son, Carlton (right).

Studying in the Lower School Library at Harrisburg Academy in 1982.

Christmas festivities at the University of Pennsylvania while Elizabeth was in grad school there, circa 1990. She played the Lady in the Mummers’ Play.

Tim and Elizabeth on their tenth wedding anniversary in New Jersey in 2006.

Elizabeth researching WWII aircraft for
Code Name Verity
at the Shuttleworth Collection in Biggleswade, England. (Courtesy of the Shuttleworth Collection.)

Elizabeth, Tim, and their children on vacation in the British Virgin Islands in 2006.

Elizabeth in full academic regalia for her commencement address at Harrisburg Academy in 2008.

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