ABSTRACT
This chapter is about three women. These women are from different ethnic and racial backgrounds, social and economic classes, divergent life situations, and different time periods. The chapter deals with the responsibility about writing about Lucy Foster and her little house in Andover in a way that would reveal who she was as a person. Lucy Foster's site provides a glimpse into a distinct site occupied by a woman who had to work inside and outside of her home to survive. The two issues—women doing archaeology and looking for gender—are inseparable because one's gender is a major part of the enculturation process and cannot help but influence how one does science, whether in choice of issues to investigate or interpretation of results. One of the earliest examples of historical archaeology in the United States and excavation of the site of an Afro-American is Adelaide and Ripley Bullen's excellent research conducted in 1943 at Black Lucy's Garden.
