One Hundred Miles From Home
Responses From Other Writers
From the FOREWORD by Wendell Berry
"The six stories told in this book affect us all. They concern us urgently. As presented here, they are exhaustively documented, understood with exemplary intelligence, and brilliantly told. Carol Rainey here makes of story telling a work of patriotism. Her work is as compelling readable as it is horrifying. It can become less horrifying only by being widely read and taken to heart. Each of these six stories is about a place used for the purpose of nuclear war or "peaceful" nuclear power. They actually are six versions of the same story: how a place, once merely a part of our only inhabitable planet, became a place of contamination, of ecological and human disease, that will need to be monitored in some cases for billions of years..And so this is, in a sense almost biblical, a book of revelation.."
Wendell Berry, novelist, poet, essay, farmer, environmentalist, author of The Long-Legged House, Hannah Coulter, The Unsettling of America, The Mad Farmer Poems
"This is a remarkable piece of work. The book makes clear that Cincinnati and its environs were for a time that part of the United States in which the nuclear industry , in its various expressions, was most concentrated. The central paradox of the book is that the bucolic Ohio River valley, a heartland of United States history and culture, is now revealed as an axis of evil which may persist through nuclear waste deposits beyond any length of time any of us can imagine."
Staughton Lynd, historian, attorney;
author of Intellectual Origins of American Radicalism, co-editor Non-violence in America: A Documentary History.
"This is not only a book for students of war but for all who wish to understand the problems we still face in remediating the toxic aftermath of the Cold War. It is also a cautionary tale regarding current administration arguments for surging full-speed ahead on a new generation of nuclear weapons and power plants. Written with a deft grasp of technology, the work nevertheless makes complex scientific issues accessible to the lay reader, while also representing the many human faces of those who are amongst the unrecognized casualties of our military development."
Dr. Michael C. C. Adams,
Regents Professor of History Emeritus, Northern Kentucky University;
author of The Great Adventure, Echoes of War
"Each of us sees one part of the problem each of us has our piece of the solution, each of us is a voice for some vision and some truth. Thank God, Carol Rainey has done each of these quite well--for all of us and for our wounded world."
Fr. Richard Rohr, O. F. M., Center for Action and Contemplation;
Albuquerque, New Mexico;
author of Hope Against Darkness, Things Hidden: Scripture as Spirituality
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