Historical survey. PHotographs by Ellen Siddons. Maps drawn by Mary Pat Spaulding. Cover painting by Barbara Ellis. Foreword by John M. Midgley. Introduction by the author. Recollections of streams and ponds flooded along the Swift River watershed in central Massachusetts to create the Quabbin Reservoir.

Trout Waters

Foye, William O.

Haleys

Trouble in Tow

Stanton, Cathy

Literature & Fiction

Wrights and Privileges: The Mills & Shops in Pelham, Massachusetts 1739-1937

History

Bigelow, Paul

Americas

Poetry by Armand Brint, poet laureate emeritus of Ukiah, California

In the Name of Wonder

Armand Brint

Poetry

Lively poetry and occasional prose embracing the fact of aging by a septuagenarian dancer in love with life and movement.

Coming of Age

Ann Marie Meltzer

Parenting & Relationships

Only Daddy's Dog

Daddy comes home from war with post traumatic stress syndrome. His service dog is trained to be dedicated to Daddy, and Daddy's dog is not meant to be a child's pet. Cynthia Crosson, a psychiatric social worker, and Carole Williams, illustrator, provide children with a clear, gentle explanation about why this is Only Daddy's Dog.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Crosson, Cynthia

Mental Health

Based on the author's 2012 visits, poetry reflecting on effects of war and oppression on the people of Afghanistan and Gaza. With a foreword by Retired United States Army Colonel Ann Wright/

When Days Are Stones

Smith-Ferri, David

Games are playful daily practices that flow like a constant brook over the stubborn stones of our old self-destructive patterns, thus slowly wearing them down and washing them away to reveal the stream bed of our basic good nature. Enjoy the games like rich chocolate cake-in small portions. Each day, don't bite off more than you can chew, but chew thoroughly what you bite off. If you play the games regularly, they will become essential to the way you live your life.

Tea with Demons • Games of Transformation

Politics & Social Sciences

Jean-Claude Van Itallie

Philosophy

Reflections on her life at 82 by the author of Still Riding at 80 and Aging Well.

my life at 82

Biographies & Memoirs

Hills, Helen

Community & Culture

Glass Needles &amp; Goose Quills: Elementary Lessons in Atomic Properties, Nuclear Families, &amp; Radical Poetics, considers nuclearism’s place in the poetic canon by surveying its physical and spiritual toll on health and language. Braiding research, memoir, and poetry, the essay serves as a companion to the author’s poetry collection Two Faint Lines in the Violet as well as a standalone primer for the poetics of social engagement.
After the untimely death of the author’s father from complications of cancer, she discovers that the Massachusetts Department of Public Health had conducted an epidemiological study of the area where he lived, one located downriver from a nuclear power plant. Despite disclaimers, the study found statistically significant elevations in breast cancer, Down Syndrome, and non-Hodgkin lymphoma, the type of cancer her father had, manifesting as a brain tumor.
Caring for her father from diagnosis through death, the author recounts that, early on, he had informed her that his closest neighbor had a brain tumor, too. Growing suspicious about the proximity of the power plant to her father’s home and accompanying possible health effects, she unearths evidence of numerous incidents and accidents at a plant with a storied and historic past.
A prototype for President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s “Atoms for Peace” program, Yankee Nuclear Power Station in Rowe, Massachusetts began operations in 1961. The plant became the first pressurized water reactor (PWR)—as opposed to light water and boiling water types—built in New England and the third in the United States. Scheduled to be in commission for only six years, it operated for nearly 32.
When it closed in October 1991, it also became the first PWR—which by then represented the majority of U.S. reactors—to be decommissioned. Industry professionals concur that the lessons learned during that process span almost every aspect of decommissioning and determined many present-day techniques. With its request for an extension of the industry’s standard 40-year operating license, Yankee Rowe also influenced the relaxation of current relicensing conventions.
The author’s journey takes her from her father’s hospital bedside to employment at that same hospital following his death. Working in the public relations department at New York City’s renowned Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center while pursuing her MFA in poetry, she feels haunted by the past, numbed from her loss, and silenced in articulating her uncertainties by nuclear industry heavyweights and medical industry titans. Seeking to reclaim her voice through poetry, she gradually but deliberately braves bearing witness to her beliefs.
 Describing the process of that reclamation in a braided essay punctuated by occasional poems, the fragmentation and vacillation of Glass Needles &amp; Goose Quills’ several storylines complicate and intensify its narrative thrust, revealing intersections in the literary, scientific, and medical arts. It also questions at what cost we continue to rely on nuclear energy by examining how disparate things leak into each other—whether by accident or design—and how power, in all definitions of the word, has profound implications on all aspects of our lives.

Glass Needles & Goose Quills

Kiernan, Lissa

History & Criticism

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