October 15, 1946 to February 1, 2024
It is with heavy hearts that we mourn the death of Al Wesolowsky. Al was for more than three decades the Managing Editor of the Journal of Field Archaeology and another six as Art Director at Boston University and was well known to all members of the archaeological community in the wider BU and JFA families. He retired a decade ago and moved to Vermont. A Texas native, he conducted archaeological research in Texas, Serbia, and Greece while pursuing graduate studies in archaeology at the University of Cambridge (UK). His BU career began with the foundation of the JFA by James R. Wiseman, and his experiences as the Managing Editor led to his passion for graphic arts, type design, and publishing, which he pursued after his retirement at the renowned Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont. Al graduated from The Center for Cartoon Studies in 2009.
Brendan McDermott appreciation of Al, “I first met Al in June of 1985, during the excavation of an almshouse burial ground in Uxbridge, Massachusetts. In his late 30’s, he was by then the Al most all of us knew. He had spent part of his adolescence in Turkey wandering ancient ruins, and had nearly 20 years’ worth of field experience, ranging from prehistoric sites of the old Southwest of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Arkansas, to the Lerna Hollow Cemetery and the Fountain of the Lamps at Ancient Corinth, and then numerous field seasons at a Roman provincial capital in Stobi, Yugoslavia (now North Macedonia). He had been recruited for the latter Classical excavations by Professor James Wiseman,” click here to read the rest.
Al wrote a few articles for Context:
“Law and a Solitary Cranium”
“Free Flight: A Short Memoir”
