Atomic farmgirl

by Teri Hein

Teri Hein explores a childhood marked by horseback riding, haying, casseroles, a stoic German Lutheran tradition, and the Cold War duck-and-cover drills of the '50s. Who's life and the lives of those in the community she lives in are forever changed by the dispersal of nuclear waste - accidental and intentional - from the Hanford Atomic Plant only 100 miles south.