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Born in 1903 in Watrous, New Mexico, Peggy Church lived on the Pajarito Plateau as a child. In 1922, Church left New Mexico to attended Smith College. Returning home two years later, she lived at the Los Alamos Ranch School, which was founded by her father. Church moved from Watrous to Taos, New mostrar mais Mexico, then to Berkeley, California, before finally settling in Santa Fe in 1960. Primarily a poet, Church is most known for her book The House at Otowi Bridge: The Story of Edith Warner and Los Alamos. In the book, Church tells the story of a woman who entertained scientists of the Manhattan Project at her bridge-side tea house. Church's other works include Wind's Trail: The Early Life of Mary Austin, New and Selected Poems, Familiar Journey, and Ultimatum for Man. Peggy Church died in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1986. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos

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Obras por Peggy Pond Church

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Conhecimento Comum

Outros nomes
Pond, Margaret Hallett
Data de nascimento
1903-12-01
Data de falecimento
1986-10-23
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
USA
Local de nascimento
Valmora, New Mexico, USA
Local de falecimento
Watrous, New Mexico, USA
Locais de residência
New Mexico, USA
Educação
Smith College
Ocupações
poet
biographer
memoirist
Prémios e menções honrosas
New Mexico Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts (1984)

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Peggy Pond Church was born Margaret Hallett Pond in the tiny town of Valmora, New Mexico. Her family ranched in the Santa Fe area for a time. In childhood, she explored the canyons and valleys of the Pajarito Plateau on foot and on horseback, and wrote her first poems during this period. She attended high school and college at boarding schools in California and on the East Coast, and then went to Smith College for a year. In 1924, she married Fermor Church, a teacher at the Los Alamos Ranch School run by her father, Ashley Pond, Jr., and had three sons. Peggy published eight volumes of poetry, beginning with Foretaste in 1933, and contributed to national publications such as the Atlantic Monthly. She also was active in the modernist poetry movement that flourished in Santa Fe from the 1920s through the 1930s. In 1928, Edith Warner came to work as a governess for one of the ranch families, and a close friendship developed between the two women. Eventually, Edith moved into a small house below the Otowi Bridge over the Rio Grande River near Los Alamos. Her story and Peggy’s were intertwined in Peggy’s dual memoir, The House at Otowi Bridge: The Story of Edith Warner and Los Alamos (1959). A posthumous poetry collection, This Dancing Ground of Sky: The Selected Poetry of Peggy Pond Church, appeared in 1993.

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Very interesting account of a woman who settled in the Los Alamos area and became a friend to the local Indians and to the scientists who came to work on the Atomic bomb project.
 
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kslade | 4 outras críticas | Dec 8, 2022 |
This is an biography of Edith Warner. Edith achieved neither fame nor fortune during her life. For most of her adult life she lived in New Mexico, in a small house on the edge of the San Ildefonso Pueblo Reservation. Yet, this book by Peggy Pond Church is the first of three that have been written about her.

She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1893, and moved to New Mexico during her twenties, and died there in 1951. Like many other people, she moved to the American Southwest for health reasons. Determined to remain there, she accepted a very low paying job as the Station Agent at a remote mail and supply drop for the Denver&Rio Grande Railroad. The small building by Otowi Bridge, which served as train station and home, also became a small store for people passing to and from local mountains. And the store eventually was turned it into a “tearoom” for which Edith became well known.

The author, Peggy Pond Church was a friend and neighbor of Edith's in New Mexico. Ms. Church grew up in New Mexico, and was living at the Los Alamos Ranch School just a few miles from that house at Otowi Bridge at the time that Edith arrived.

This book uses both Edith's notes and letters, and Ms. Church’s personal journal and recollection to tell the story of Edith Warner. Although Edith published some magazine articles of her own, and had started but never finished an autobiography, Ms. Church’s personal accounts provide important background that is missing from Edith's letters and other writing. Ms. Church was a writer and poet and this book is very well written.

In the 1940s, the site of the Los Alamos Ranch School was taken over by the government in World War II for the development of the A-Bomb. Due to the remoteness of Los Alamos, Edith's nearby tearoom became a popular dining spot for scientists and others living in Los Alamos. Edith Warner became friends with many famous physicists such as Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi, Neils Bohr and others who enjoyed frequent dinner party's at her tearoom. At the same time, she was an even a closer friend to many Indians on the Pueblo Reservation. As the author writes in the Foreword,

“Through the Indians she was in touch with a wisdom that has been almost forgotten. The scientists who took our place at Los Alamos became her friends. It was one of the strange aspects of Edith Warner's fate that brought these men and their wives from many nations to gather around her table. … Edith's house became a kind of sanctuary for them in the tense years before Hiroshima.”

and she quotes a letter from physicist Neils Bohr,

“The memory of Edith Warner, a noble personalty, and of the enchanting environment in which she lived, will always be cherished by everyone who met her.”

This book should convince the reader of what an remarkable person she was - even as you wish for more details which are impossible simply because she was such a private person. And it will certainly you wish you could have met her.
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dougb56586 | 4 outras críticas | Oct 23, 2013 |
Fine little book about Edith Warner, who lived at the intersection of the Atomic age and the Stone age where the river makes a noise!
 
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buffalogr | 4 outras críticas | Feb 1, 2012 |
Good short book on Edith Warner who lived near Los Alamos and how she was friends with the local Indians and the scientists of Los Alamos.
 
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kcslade | 4 outras críticas | Jul 23, 2009 |

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Obras
15
Membros
239
Popularidade
#94,925
Avaliação
4.0
Críticas
5
ISBN
18

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