UT News Search Button By: Sara Robberson Lentz Julia Guernsey says she doesn’t like to mythologize her past. A true art historian, she is ever aware of how the narrative she might tell shapes reality. When asked about her life growing up, she says simply that she had a happy childhood growing up in Rockford, Illinois, a town west of Chicago. “Nothing much of note or unusual. I’m really not sure what to say about Rockford. … It was the home of Cheap Trick?” she says laughing about the birthplace of the rock band. Guernsey was the oldest of three childr...