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

Product Description: "Dancing Ground of Sky" makes available the poetic art distilled from Church's richly varied life and from her emotional connections to others and to her home state of New Mexico. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Expanded new edition of a classic Los Alamos publication appearing first in 1974. Exhaustive list of Ranch School students and staff from its 1918 beginning until 1943 when it was closed on orders of the Secretary of War.

Product Description: A “personal ecology” is what poet and writer Peggy Pond Church called the journals she kept for more than fifty years on New Mexico’s Pajarito Plateau. Church’s work appeared regularly in Poetry and Saturday Review of Literature and her biography of Edith Warner, The House at Otowi Bridge, became a regional classic...read more