Barbara Hatch

My name is Sue Fisher Seeger. I'm Barbara's first cousin once-removed. She and my father, Alvan Fisher, were first cousins.

We have a familiar hymn in the Episcopal church about all the saints in the world, with the refrain "And I want to be one too." Cousin Barbara, as she called herself in the Fisher tradition, was what I want to be one of too. She followed a long line of strong Fisher women -- her aunts, my great aunts in particular. They were adventurers, be it traveling the...