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Carry Through If Hell Freezes Over
Carry Through If Hell Freezes Over
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Carry Through If Hell Freezes Over is the story of a Smithsonian field station on Harquahala Mountain near Wenden, Arizona. The field station was build in 1920 under the direction of Dr. Charles Abbot, director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.
Carry Through If Hell Freezes Over is about the people who worked at the Arizona field station; the book is based on the frequent correspondence they had with the Smithsonian and with families on both coasts. It is the story of Alfred and Chella Moore, newlyweds, with a cast of assistants, and their efforts to make Abbot's Arizona field station work. Alfred was prone to grumpiness and did not like the Arizona site. Chella was frail but brave. As for the assistants: Keg was a jack of all trades; Paul was a budding Hollywood star; Worthington spit too much and lacked pep; Hoover lacked initiative; and Freeman was just too spooney. Along with personalities, the Moores struggled daily with the bums and loafers in Wenden, the elements on mile-high Harquahala, surprises from Mother Nature, the site's extreme isolation, underfunding and a scientific effort that was, at times, less than scientific.
Carry Through If Hell Freezes Over is a fascinating glimpse of what life was like on a remote mountain in Arizona, the country's newest state, and how science was done in the early Twentieth Century.
Carry Through If Hell Freezes Over is about the people who worked at the Arizona field station; the book is based on the frequent correspondence they had with the Smithsonian and with families on both coasts. It is the story of Alfred and Chella Moore, newlyweds, with a cast of assistants, and their efforts to make Abbot's Arizona field station work. Alfred was prone to grumpiness and did not like the Arizona site. Chella was frail but brave. As for the assistants: Keg was a jack of all trades; Paul was a budding Hollywood star; Worthington spit too much and lacked pep; Hoover lacked initiative; and Freeman was just too spooney. Along with personalities, the Moores struggled daily with the bums and loafers in Wenden, the elements on mile-high Harquahala, surprises from Mother Nature, the site's extreme isolation, underfunding and a scientific effort that was, at times, less than scientific.
Carry Through If Hell Freezes Over is a fascinating glimpse of what life was like on a remote mountain in Arizona, the country's newest state, and how science was done in the early Twentieth Century.
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