[Magdalen] Book I am now reading

[Gillian Barr]

A friend of mine works in historical aircraft restoration. When working on
the Enola Gay they had to wear Geiger counters—not because of the nuclear
bomb she dropped, but because of the radium on the instrument dials.

Popping out of lurkdom,

Gillian Barr
Stonington CT

On Sat, Aug 3, 2019 at 11:39 AM Dorothy Collman <dac7792 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Our September selection for my church's Ladies Literary Fellowship is
> "Radium Girls" by Kate Moore. It tells the story of the young women who
> worked painting clock faces in the early 20th century and were fatally
> poisoned by the radium in the paint.
>
> <https://www.sourcebooks.com/radium-girls.html>
>
> When I was living in Watford I took a pottery class at the local technical
> college. The instructor told us not to eat, drink or smoke in the classroom
> because of the possibility of getting some of the chemicals into our
> mouths. The raw glazes contained lead, tin, cobalt, et al. Toxic, but not
> radioactive.
>
> - - -
> Dorothy Collman
> Home: DottieAnne at aol.com
> List: dac7792 at gmail.com
>
>
> > On Jul 29, 2019, at 10:28 AM, cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Someone was rummaging through some old storage areas of the\local
> Wilkes-Barre City Hall and found four 9' diameter clock faces in a
> cubbyhole  there.
> > It was determined that they were from the Luzerne County Court
> Housewhich had a tall clock tower and clock complete with bells to mark
> thehours.  That court house building had been raised and the site made
> > into a public square in 1909.  The innards of the clock, made of iron
> andsteel were melted down in 1942 for the WW-2 effort.
> > Court houses in general in Pennsylvania tend to rival many state
> capitolbuildings, and are the source of much pride.  The new Luzerne
> CountyCourt House is domed with four wings, and has a very
> impressiveinterior not unlike the PA Capitol building down the road at
> Harrisburg.
> >
>
> --
Gillian R. Barr
Providence, RI