[Magdalen] Book I am now reading

[Suzie Buchanan]

Radium Girls is a good read and heartbreaking story. I’m currently in my tent at a parish camping trip and had just thought of that book when I realized my new semi-smart Fossil watch has hands that glow in the dark. I wonder what is used today?  

Suz

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> On Aug 3, 2019, at 12:01 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I finally got my reserved copy of “Where the Crawdads Sing” yesterday and stayed up nearly all night reading it. What a book! Of course, when I had to get up at 6 to give my daughter’s horse his medicine, I wasn’t so happy!
> 
>> On Aug 3, 2019, at 11:52 AM, Gillian Barr <gillian.barr at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 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