Hardback book with dust jacket titled THE HOUSE ON OTOWI BRIDGE: The Story of Edith Warner and Los Alamos.

The house at Otowi Bridge: The story of Edith Warner and Los Alamos

Biographies & Memoirs

Peggy Pond Church

Community & Culture

University of New Mexico Press

''Here are pages with delicately-carved poems, fragrant with the sage of high mesas, light as a cirrus cloud, warm as red blood, vibrant as the strings of a violin. The reader catches glimpses, feels touches of the sensitive character of the poet, sensitive not so much to darkness as to light in all its nuances of color, movement, and design. Of acid there is not a trace. There are cloud-shadows, the flight of a fairy, altars, the turn of the earth, lilac roots, turquoise in the wind. The author has divided her book into two parts, but the poems arrange themselves into four spheres: poems close to the earth, fantasy, sketches of children, glimpses of the native American Southwest. New Mexico is symbolized in a new way: placid burros become ancient hills; chili burns with new fever; natives pray in the cool recesses of a church under an anciently carved statue of Joseph; sheep and goats whiten the rock-ribbed hills.'' (From The New Mexico Quarterly, February, 1934, Volume IV, Number 1.)

Foretaste, Poems (Southwest Heritage)

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Sunstone Press

<p>"The Burro of Angelitos," charming and beautifully illustrated as it is, delightful to children and their adults, is actually a bit of a political statement. In 1930s New Mexico, artists, writers and ethnologists were convinced that the coming of modernity would mean the end of a way of life that they found original and beautiful and unique. Fortunately, the adventures of this independent little burro of the past, in a community that might be one of several villages still to be found in Northern New Mexico, will charm us today. While some might expect Tranquilidad de O ate, the burro's companion, to be a caricature, Gigi Johnson, the illustrator of this book, saw him as a handsome representation of an isolated, beautiful lifestyle that is now history. However, he is also a man who needs to find meaning in his life, as Peggy Pond Church intended, and as a small lesson in the story for children. The humor in the language of the book will bring smiles, especially when read aloud, while the quality of the illustrations enrich the lovely story revived so handsomely by Sunstone Press. In addition to "The Burro of Angelitos," originally published in 1936, she is the author of "Foretaste" and "Familiar Journey" (both in new editions from Sunstone Press), as well as "Ultimatum for Man" and "The House at Otowi Bridge" among others. In 2010, a children's story written by Peggy in the 1930s was published as a bilingual book titled "Shoes for the Santo Ni o," and in 2011 the story was adapted to become a children's opera. Margaret Hallett Pond, who became known as PEGGY POND CHURCH, was born on a ranch in the Territory of New Mexico in 1903 at a place called Valmora. She was the daughter of Ashley Pond Jr., son of a wealthy Detroit attorney, and Hazel Hallett Pond, the granddaughter of a former governor of Arkansas who retired from politics to become a rancher in Mora County. As a teenager, Peggy was sent to boarding schools in California and Connecticut, and by the time she entered Smith College, her poetry had already achieved recognition and won awards. Peggy married Fermor Spencer Church in 1924 and they were the parents of three sons. She died October 23, 1986, a date of her "own choosing."</p>

The Burro of Angelitos (Southwest Heritage)

Children's Books

Humor

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.

When Los Alamos Was a Ranch School: Historical Profile

History

Fermor Church

Americas

Los Alamos Historical Society

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