![]() ![]() They insist, for example, that she wear a helmet when riding her bike. They are always worried about her getting hurt. Her family relocates to Los Alamos after her father's death. The main character is a teen-aged girl named Davey. That explains why she was able to write, with great accuracy, about Los Alamos. ![]() I learned that in 1976, Judy Blume moved to Los Alamos and lived there for a few years. Oppenheimer oversaw the development of atomic weapons and the site of a national laboratory, it is an unusual place.Īfter reading Tiger Eyes, I did a bit of research. ![]() Due to its history as the place where Robert J. I got to know some of those scientists and their kids. There were barbecues at homes of my dad's colleagues, too. ![]() He won international engineering awards for cameras he designed and built at the lab. My dad worked at Los Alamos National Lab as an electrical engineer. Nambe Pueblo is about 25 miles from Los Alamos. I graduated from Pojoaque High School in 1977, so I doubt that I'd read it until now.Īs I read Blume's coming-of-age novel, I remembered the places she describes. I got a copy of the book and started reading. My first thought was "did I read Tiger Eyes" when I was in high school? Now, he goes on, that part of his family lives in a pueblo 30 miles away. In the clip, "Wolf" tells "Tiger" that Tewa people, his ancestors, lived in the caves 800 years ago. Being tribally enrolled at Nambe Pueblo and having grown up there means that I immediately recognized the setting. ![]()
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