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(Photograph courtesy of Dr. Elisabeth Berry Drago, and used with permission.) Say the word "alchemy".  What comes to mind? If you thought of a bearded recluse trying to transmute lead into gold--well, that's not really accurate, says Dr. Elisabeth Berry Drago. Lisa, as she prefers to be called, is an artist, art historian and Public History Fellow at Philadelphia's Science History Institute.    One of her specialties is creating content that puts visitors into the stories her research uncovers.  Often, those stories are about the ways art and technology have worked together in society. Recently, Lisa curated the Institute's  exhibition, "Age of Alchemy", which is just one of a series of alchemy-inspired projects.   She's also creating content for a new digital game which puts players in the middle of a seventeenth-century alchemy lab.  "Age of Alchemy: The Goldsmith's Daughter" is based on some of the paintings of that era.  Lisa says the game is currently in prototype stage, with a projected release da