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Author | : Peggy Pond Church |
Publisher | : UNM Press |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1973-05-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0826325505 |
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This is the story of Edith Warner, who lived for more than twenty years as a neighbor to the Indians of San Ildefonso Pueblo, near Los Alamos, New Mexico. She was a remarkable woman, a friend to everyone who knew her, from her Indian companion Tilano, who was an elder of San Ildefonso, to Niels Bohr, Robert Oppenheimer, and the other atomic scientists who worked at Los Alamos during World War II. "A finely told tale of a strange land and of a rare character who united with it and, without seeming to do anything to that end, exerted an unusual influence upon all other lovers of that soil with whom she came in contact. The quality of the country, of the many kinds of people, and of the central character come through excellently." --Oliver La Farge
Author | : Frank Waters |
Publisher | : Ohio University Press |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2023-09-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0804041245 |
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Based on the real life of Edith Warner, who ran a tearoom at Otowi Crossing, just below Los Alamos, The Woman at Otowi Crossing is the story of Helen Chalmer, a person in tune with her adopted environment and her neighbors in the nearby Indian pueblo and also a friend of the first atomic scientists. The secret evolution of atomic research is a counterpoint to her psychic development. In keeping with its tradition of allowing the best of its list to thrive, Ohio University Press/Swallow Press is particularly proud to reissue The Woman at Otowi Crossing by best-selling author Frank Waters. This new edition features an introduction by Professor Thomas J. Lyon and a foreword by the author’s widow, Barbara Waters. The story is quintessential Waters: a parable for the potentially destructive materialism of the mid-twentieth century. The antidote is Helen Chalmer’s ability to understand a deeper truth of her being; beyond the Western notion of selfhood, beyond the sense of a personality distinct from the rest, she experiences a new and wider awareness. The basis for an opera of the same name, The Woman at Otowi Crossing is the powerful story of the crossing of cultures and lives: a fable for our times.
Author | : TaraShea Nesbit |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2014-04-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1408845989 |
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Their average age was twenty-five. They came from Berkeley, Cambridge, Paris, London and Chicago – and arrived in New Mexico ready for adventure or at least resigned to it. But hope quickly turned to hardship in the desolate military town where everything was a secret, including what their husbands were doing at the lab. They lived in barely finished houses with a P.O. Box for an address, in a town wreathed with barbed wire, all for the benefit of 'the project' that didn't exist as far as the greater world was concerned. They were constrained by the words they couldn't say out loud, the letters they couldn't send home, the freedom they didn't have. Though they were strangers, they joined together – babies were born, friendships were forged, children grew up. But then 'the project' was unleashed and even bigger challenges faced the women of Los Alamos, as they struggled with the burden of their contribution towards the creation of the most destructive force in mankind's history – the atomic bomb. Contentious, gripping and intimate, The Wives of Los Alamos is a personal tale of one of the most momentous events in our history.
Author | : Edith Warner |
Publisher | : UNM Press |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Los Alamos Region (N.M.) |
ISBN | : 0826319785 |
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To read this book is to hear her own quiet voice, describing pueblo ceremonials, detailing the difficulties of life during the war years, and above all recording her own spiritual relationship with the New Mexico landscape.
Author | : Peggy Pond Church |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Jennet Conant |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2007-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1416585427 |
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From the bestselling author of Tuxedo Park, the extraordinary story of the thousands of people who were sequestered in a military facility in the desert for twenty-seven intense months under J. Robert Oppenheimer where the world's best scientists raced to invent the atomic bomb and win World War II. In 1943, J. Robert Oppenheimer, the brilliant, charismatic head of the Manhattan Project, recruited scientists to live as virtual prisoners of the U.S. government at Los Alamos, a barren mesa thirty-five miles outside Santa Fe, New Mexico. Thousands of men, women, and children spent the war years sequestered in this top-secret military facility. They lied to friends and family about where they were going and what they were doing, and then disappeared into the desert. Through the eyes of a young Santa Fe widow who was one of Oppenheimer's first recruits, we see how, for all his flaws, he developed into an inspiring leader and motivated all those involved in the Los Alamos project to make a supreme effort and achieve the unthinkable.
Author | : Nancy Cook Steeper |
Publisher | : Los Alamos Historical Society Publications |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Los Alamos (N.M.) |
ISBN | : 9780941232302 |
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Dorothy Ann Scarritt was born 12 December 1897 in Kansas City, Missouri. Her parents were William Chick Scarritt and Frances Virginia Davis. She graduated from Smith College in 1919. She married Joseph Chambers McKibbin (1893-1931), son of Joseph McKibbin and Mary Henderson Dorsey, 5 October 1927. They had one son, Kevin. She raised her son in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she became secretary for the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory from 1943 to 1963. She died in 1985.
Author | : Alex Leibel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2010-04-10 |
Genre | : Frogtown (Saint Paul, Minn.) |
ISBN | : 9780615346830 |
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Author | : Various |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2007-04-24 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780143104988 |
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The most important personal accounts of the Plymouth Colony, the key sources of Nathaniel Philbrick's New York Times bestseller Mayflower National Book Award winner Nathaniel Philbrick and his father, Thomas Philbrick, present the most significant and readable original works that were used in the writing of Mayflower, offering a definitive look at a crucial era of America's history. The selections include William Bradford's "Of Plymouth Plantation" (1651), the most comprehensive of all contemporary accounts of settlement in seventeenth-century America; Benjamin Church's "Entertaining Passages Relating to Philip's War 1716," an eye-opening account from Church's field notes from battle; and much more. Providing explanatory notes for every piece, the editors have vividly re-created the world of seventeenth-century New England for anyone interested in the early history of our nation. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author | : Peggy Pond Church |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1947 |
Genre | : American poetry |
ISBN | : |
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