Carolyn Sturges (b. 1986; d. 26 Oct 2012) is a graduate assistant of English at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. On Dome Day, she was vacationing in Chester's Mill, Maine with Thurston Marshall. They were apparently unaware of the appearance of the barrier until the morning of 23 October 2009, when the western side of the town was evacuated for a missile strike.