atomic farmgirl: growing up right in the wrong place
an autobiographical Novel of Teri Hien’s early life in Eastern Washington State that I picked up at the Spokane Museum shop on an excellent weekend vacation
Recommended for people that interested in US social and political history from personal, first hand stories.
3 smiles: Ratings explained
Atomic? The proximity to the Hanford, former nuclear, site that supplied the plutonium for the Manahattan project. The most radio-active contaminated site in the US. An American hero of WW2 and the villain.
Right? Stories of the countryside, pioneer farmers settling and farming the rich lands of Eastern Washington with horses and tractors, Stories of community and local Native Americans. Funny and poignant
The wrong place? Downwind of Hanford, the downwinders. The building of the plant, the management of waste and information about that waste, the cancers experienced by family and neighbours, the deaths. Sad and disturbing.
