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In the Shadow of Los Alamos: Selected Writings of Edith Warner
Edited by Patrick Burns
University of New Mexico Press
226 pages, $19.95
Bones Incandescent; The Pajarito Journals of Peggy Pond Church
Edited by Shelley Armitage
Texas Tech University Press
236 pages
You should read more of Edith Warner in coming days:
"If the world situation is as bad as it seems, I feel strongly that it should be taken to the people. The strength of this country is the people and always in a crisis they have come through. I feel though that the thing we should work for is not security as such for our own country, but peace for the world." -- Warner's letter to Lois Bradbury, Nov. 30, 1947
Warner's tearoom on the Rio Grande served as an unofficial clubhouse for the scientists assembled in secrecy in wartime Los Alamos. She was primarily their cook and host, but she also became a moral sounding board for what went on on the Hill. Even a half- century after her death, she is a muse to some of us.
Warner, 1893-1951, is mainly known from her modestly eloquent Christmas letters published in...