Allison Melone

“My two children are very competitive people,” says Suzanne Melges. “I always joke they inherited that nature from my husband’s side of the family.” Melges’ husband of nearly 30 years Harry III is the son of decorated sailor Harry ‘Buddy’ Melges who, throughout the course of his storied career, won a bronze medal at the

The North Shore’s Elizabeth “Liza” Yntema descends from a storied line of relatives best described as, Yntema tells it, “life-long troublemakers.” Take Yntema’s ancestor John Proctor, who was hung as a witch in Salem. Yntema notes that the family maintains it was a “land dispute.” Or her grandmother Jean Busey, an early environmental and civil

“Even though Kendall is now almost 15 years in remission, I still to this day think of myself as a mom whose daughter had cancer,” says Alison Sierens. “It becomes a lifelong part of you.” When we were first introduced to Sierens, her husband Bob and their four daughters, Ryan, Jaime, Kendall, and Payton, in