I was just in Los Alamos, as you know. There's a real creepiness to a company town -- call it the coal miner's great granddaughter in me -- but this kind of company town was way heavier in its shiny happy sheen. Also we were ID'd twice while driving. We didn't have time to visit the museum of the nuclear history, but would have been interesting to see what kind of messaging they'd deployed on the topic. Do you recall?
It’s been decades, and I don’t remember the story they tell there, but it would be interesting to go there now and see how it’s framed. I think maybe one of the things I like so much about The Woman at Otowi Crossing is a glimpse of the happenings at Los Alamos closer to their happening and from a perspective that isn’t quite head-on.
I was just in Los Alamos, as you know. There's a real creepiness to a company town -- call it the coal miner's great granddaughter in me -- but this kind of company town was way heavier in its shiny happy sheen. Also we were ID'd twice while driving. We didn't have time to visit the museum of the nuclear history, but would have been interesting to see what kind of messaging they'd deployed on the topic. Do you recall?
It’s been decades, and I don’t remember the story they tell there, but it would be interesting to go there now and see how it’s framed. I think maybe one of the things I like so much about The Woman at Otowi Crossing is a glimpse of the happenings at Los Alamos closer to their happening and from a perspective that isn’t quite head-on.
As a fellow New Mexican (born and raised in ABQ), I greatly appreciate this! Thank you.
Hello, fellow New Mexican! Thanks for the note.