A Tennessee Christmas
…guard shack that marked the edge of town. Back during World War II, when Oak Ridge was a secret city designed to facilitate the Manhattan Project, this was one of…
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Taken
…at a very young age, long before I departed my hometown of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, destined for hard-to-pronounce places at the tattered edges of a map. My father showed me…
A Protection Against Oblivion
…Ridge,” she writes, “was my Combray.” Nancy Drew and Davy Crockett share space alongside Atomic Fireball candy, Captain Atomic comic books, and the ubiquitous atomic symbol—found in Oak Ridge on…
“Landscape Myopia”
…New Southern Voices Poetry Prize, selected by Sean Hill. Her poems have appeared on Poets.org and in Crazyhorse, Waxwing, The Southern Review, and other publications. She lives in Oak Ridge….
Welcome to the Machine
…walk, Oak Ridge, does not exist on any map, and the work they do is supposed to be kept secret, too, even from each other. “So do you work at…
A Castle on a Mountaintop
…Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California. The author of the bestselling The Girls of Atomic City, a cultural history of the women who worked at the Oak Ridge project during…
