Dr. Elizabeth Ogden

Briarbanks College Annex Antiquities Professor, Crooked Mile Circle Investigator

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Dr. Lizzie Odgen is a renowned anthropologist. She taught at Poohkeepisetomeway University, Hudson Canal, and she studied antiquated cultures with Margaret Mead. Dr. Ogden’s peculiar speciality is the ancient dead and how they got that way. She has one grown and married daughter who rarely sees her busy mother.
A single woman who doesn’t have the foggiest idea about how to cook, she is always scavenging for rhubarb pies and toffee coffee cookies. Her sister, Ellie Ellen Ogden owns a bakery in Crooked Mile. She lives in the bakery on the second floor. She conveniently finds sweets laid out for her every morning with a hot cup of dark Colombian coffee.
Her granddaughter has a chronic condition that led her to use her inflated salary to underwrite her medical surgeries and medicines. It also contributes to a nest egg and travel and she could never afford while teaching. She likes the quiet days at the Tower Library when she can while away her day filing manuscripts.
Dr. Ogden met Circle Founder, Jason Garamund Garamund during a retreat in Seasway. They spent time together studying the effects of paranormal curses on Sumerian artifacts. She kept her flat in South Soffit, but agreed with Jason that a move to Crooked Mile, where she could find safe decent housing was in her best interest. Not long after she moved to the village, Newfaire's Briarbank College agreed to her Briarbank College Annex transfer request. She loved the idea of teaching night courses to students, who never had the chance to learn what sorts of research and expedition methods she taught.

Dr. Elizabeth Ogden

Dr. Elizabeth (Lizzie) Ogden by ROD w/Midjourney

Dr. Ogden is a devotee and patient of Nelson Ettinger, a long-lost kin of the other Ettinger, who studied the work of Neil R. Jones, an Amazing Stories writer, who specialized preserving human corpses. During one of his campaigns to preserve a human corpse at the -273.15C/-459.67F he asked Lizzie whether she wanted to volunteer. When awakened forty million years later, she could expect her brain to be transplanted into a mechanical apparatus. After saying sad farewells to her family and her mentors, she booked rail and boat passage to an exclusive (so the brochure stated) laboratory near the Glass Sea. Lizzie, not wanting to scare friends and family, lied. She told them she accepted a teaching position at Briarbank College. It delighted them. The single woman began her career. After spending years learning the antiquities, history and anthropology, she immersed herself in.
Lizzie enjoyed her frigid sleep until she woke up earlier than expected (just shy of 40 millon years) and thawed out. For 6 months she attempted to ice herself daily, but she kept thawing and aging permaturely. When she saw an employment ad in the local newspaper, she applied for a research librarian job. No one bothered to look at resume dates or her prestigious background. She was hired within the week. A warm book shelf lined library was a welcome sight to her moribund eyes. That day she thawed out completely, but she couldn't stop the aging process. "It is what it is," she sighed.