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DENNIS MYERS
Against the Grain
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Protecting ourselves from experience
Late in the 1960s, a nurse who worked in a publicly owned facility in Fallon retired. Freed from the danger of losing her job, she contacted Nevada state health officer Edward Crippen to tell him of a secret Churchill County officials had been keeping. The water in the county, she said, was dangerously high in arsenic content. Local officials had kept the information secret because they were afraid it would scare away tourists.
Road-tripping on Father's Day
Don't bother calling to wish me a Happy Father's Day because I won't be here, kids, I've got the day off. I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.
Letters to the Editor
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