The House at Otowi Bridge: The Story of Edith Warner and Los Alamos

Peggy Pond Church's The House at Otowi Bridge tells the story of Edith Warner, who for some twenty years ran a small tearoom by the bridge over the Rio Grande below Los Alamos, where she became a friend to the people of San Ildefonso Pueblo and, during the Manhattan Project, a quiet refuge for scientists including Niels Bohr and Robert Oppenheimer. Church, a native New Mexican poet who herself lived at Los Alamos, tells the story in a book Oliver La Farge praised as "a finely told tale of a strange land," weaving Warner's life together with her Pueblo neighbor Tilano and the plateau country.

This is the University of New Mexico Press reissue carrying the 1987 copyright by Church's heirs over the 1959-60 original, with Connie Fox Boyd's drawings and a cover illustration by Katherine Potter.