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The House at Otowi Bridge: The Story of Edith Warner and Los Alamos |  | Author: Peggy Pond Church
Creator: Connie Fox Boyd
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 252790
Media: Paperback
Edition: Trade
Pages: 159
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Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.3 x 0.1
ISBN: 0826302815
Dewey Decimal Number: 920
EAN: 9780826302816
ASIN: 0826302815
Publication Date: May 1, 1973
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Clean,tight book. Drawings by Connie Fox Boyd. 149pp. Story of a woman from Los Almos, NM whose friends included locals and the atomic scientists (Robert Oppenheimer, Niels Bohr, etc.)
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 excellent book! February 1, 2010
Westley R. Wright (Oregon)
Presents not only a history of the early days of Los Alamos but builds a wonderful picture of the woman who understood the deeper aspects of the land and its indigenes people.
Well worth the read.
 The House at Otowi Bridge: The Story of Edith Warner and Los Alamos October 15, 2008
Zoe K. Holmes (Rockwall, TX USA)
The House at Otowi Bridge is a wonderful story of the impact that one woman can make on her time and place. The story is truly inspirational. I would like to have known Ms. Warner.
Lyrical and unsatisfying October 1, 2007
Cynthia Snowden (Placitas, New Mexico)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is almost a prose poem about the beauties of the Los Alamos area and a life lived alone and apparently satisfyingly. Well, not entirely alone. Edith Warner, the subject of this biographical sketch, did live happily alone for a time -- how long a time? But then she was joined at the little house at Otowi Bridge by Tilano, a much older Indian man who was her companion until she died twenty-some years later. Edith was great friends with the Indians from the San Ildefonso pueblo, and with some of the scientists and support personnel at Los Alamos in the years when the bomb was being developed -- 1942 to 1945. It is this Los Alamos connection that has put her on the map, although her life was interesting enough in any case.
But if you have at all a practical intellect, you will chafe at what isn't included in the book. Life in this remote spot presented numerous challenges -- how were they met? Edith soon after going to Otowi Bridge began serving teas -- that's how she met Robert Oppenheimer -- and later Oppie arranged that she should serve dinners to a couple of groups from "the Hill" each evening. But how did she get the food? Where did she store it? Did she have kitchen or garden help, beyond what Tilano provided?
At some point a horse, a cow, and a dog appear in the narrative -- where did they come from? How much money might she have had and where did she keep it? She had a guest house too -- who did the laundry? Gasoline rationing during the war was mentioned as a problem, but for what would they have needed gas? Did she and Tilano have a car? Truck? Motorcycle? Where did she get the shirtwaist dresses she habitually wore? Most biographies fill in the blanks better than this.
Edith is presented as a rather otherworldly person who worked very hard, and no doubt that view of her is true. But it is too magical; it can't be the whole story -- where is the rest?
The Heart of the Matter January 2, 2007
Alan Blackstock
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Notwithstanding the first reviewer's comments, as a former resident of Los Alamos, I find that Church's account comes far closer to the heart of the matter than does Frank Waters's treatment of the same subject, The Woman at Otowi Crossing.
 Pretty good, but not what I expected... June 17, 2001
Scout Leader (Irvine, CA United States)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
As a fan of northern New Mexico as well as our nation's atomic history, I was expecting a bit more than this superficial look at the life of Edith Warner and her impact on the Los Alamas/San Ildefanso areas. While it's pretty good at conjuring up mental imagery, the writing is not terribly smooth. This is probably because Ms. Warner didn't appear to leave a very large diary, so the rest is filled in by the personal commentary of Ms. Pond Church who was a sporadic visitor to the "house" at best during the period and writes in a very different style than Ms. Warner. All in all, I just didn't feel it ever got to the heart of Ms. Warner's story, but it was a nice "read" nevertheless.
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