NEWS & EVENTS
Eagle Harbor Book Co. on Bainbridge Island is one of the most attractive of the independent community bookstores. A mainstay on Winslow Way, it has been an anchor and a gathering place for more than 45 years. "Connecting readers with writers since 1970." http://www.eagleharborbooks.com
At a recent event there, we had the opportunity to discover a compelling new author who is also writing about the effects of Cold War nuclear activities on people and politics today.
DOWNWIND
A People's History of the Nuclear West
by Sarah Alisabeth Fox
When she moved to Utah as a young woman, Sarah Alisabeth Fox became an unwilling witness to the personal cost of nuclear testing and uranium extraction in the American West during and after the Cold War.
Downwind tells the stories of Native American and non-Native residents of the Great Basin region whose communities were ravaged by cancer epidemics, whose farms and ranches were ruined by massive crop and animal deaths, and whose Native miners worked in dangerous conditions without proper safety equipment.
Unearthed from years of field interviews, archival research and epidemiological studies, Dowwind "brings home the truth that all wars--no matter how conceptual they may seem--occur in actual places, where actual people live, grow food and raise children."
Request it at your local independent bookstore.