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title	:	The House At Otowi Bridge : The Story of Edith Warner and Los Alamos Zia Book
author	:	Church, Peggy Pond.
publisher	:	University of New Mexico
isbn10 | asin	:	0826302815
print isbn13	:	9780826302816
ebook isbn13	:	9780585187853
language	:	English
subject	Warner, Edith,--1891 or 2-1951, Los Alamos (N.M.)
publication date	:	1998
lcc	:	F804.L6W3 1998eb
ddc	:	920.7
subject	:	Warner, Edith,--1891 or 2-1951, Los Alamos (N.M.)

Page i The House At Otowi Bridge

Page ii DRAWINGS BY CONNIE FOX BOYD THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS

Page iii The House At Otowi Bridge The Story of Edith Warner and Los Alamos Peggy Pond Church

Page iv 1959, 1960 by The University of New Mexico Press. All rights reserved. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 60-13408 Clothbound ISBN 0-8263-0014-6 Paperbound ISBN 0-8263-0281-5 Thirteenth paperbound printing, 1998

Page v TO DOROTHY McKIBBIN FOR THE SAKE OF THE OLD TIMES AND THE NEW

Page vii Contents Acknowledgments ix Foreword 1 The House at Otowi Bridge 6 Appendix 119 Edith Warner's Chocolate Loaf Cake 120 The Woman Who Dwells 121 For Tilano of San Ildefonso 122 Edith Warner's Christmas Letters 123 L'Envoi 147

Page ix Acknowledgments Grateful acknowledgement is made to Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer for permission to quote from Science and the Common Understanding; to the New York Times for quotations from an article by Bill Becker on Niels Bohr; to The American Council for Nationalities Service for use of portions of my article, "Winter Feast," previously published in Common Ground, and to Neighborhood: A Settlement Quarterly, for Edith Warner's essay on her Pueblo neighbors. I am especially indebted to Velma Warner Ludlow for the material she entrusted to my care and for the faith and patience with which she has awaited the outcome; to Peter (Mrs. C. Earle) Miller for her letters which did so much to set the tone of the book; to Dr. Philip Morrison for the use of his letter; and to Mrs. L. D. P. King who made possible an unforgettable evening of reminiscence among Edith Warner's friends at Los Alamos. I owe more than I can say to May Sarton for her severe and loving criticism of the first draft, to Erna Fergusson for her appreciation of the second, and above all to Roland Dickey for his perceptive eye and the valiant use of his editorial scissors. PEGGY POND CHURCH

Page 1 Foreword I have been sitting in my garden this morning thinking of Edith Warner, how many years it has been since she died and how fast the world we knew has gone on changing. She lies in an Indian grave near the Pueblo of San Ildefonso, nothing over her but the earth hard as a bare heel, and the fragments of the clay pots that were broken over the grave according to the ancient custom of the Pueblos. The little house she lived in beside the bridge was already falling to pieces when I saw it last. The new bridge of towering rigid steel, with two lanes for the traffic that now speeds back and forth to Los Alamos, crosses the Rio Grande close to the wellhouse. The vines that used to hang there, their leaves so glossy and cool in the quivery summer heat, are a mass of clotted dry stems and tendrils. I suppose hardly anyone stops to listen to the river any more. But I still see Edith standing in the doorway, her thin figure straight as an aspen in a mountain forest, her eyes lifted to the long dark rim of the mesa east of the river. She watches the sky for the northward flight of the wild geese, "that long silver V endlessly circling and reforming," to tell us of spring's sure return. The brown buckskin moccasins in which she moved so quietly about her busy days are lapped over at the ankles and fastened in the Navajo style with a silver buttonthe only concession to Indian costume she ever made. In memory I still see the worn scrubbed boards of the kitchen floor behind her, the old-fashioned range with its twin warming ovens and the woodbox near it that Tilano kept filled with sticks of knotted juniper. The copper kettle simmers on the stove and the house is filled with the warm smell of baking bread.

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