Tahoma's Trophy Author:Anderson, Ruth M. Picturesque Meersen, Washington, situated on the banks of a river in the shadow of Mount Rainier, offers an idyllic setting for a recent Air Force widow. Meg Panders accepts the job of head librarian in the town, hoping to find tranquility as she recovers from her loss. But Meersen's townspeople are living anything but utopian lives. Nor is thei... more »r location paradise, as Meg learns when Mount Rainier, an active volcano, begins to reawaken. The town is caught up in a wrenching dilemma--evacuate the town based on scientific forecasts, or stay and risk the loss of life, livelihood, and homes.
Mount Rainier, or Tahoma as Native Americans call it, has erupted and unleashed enormous landslides several time in its long history, most recently about 500 years ago. Scientists tell us that it's not a question of whether the largest volcano in the Cascade Mountain Range will activate again, but when that will occur. Yet, development continues to crowd the decaying mountain. Tahoma's Trophy, fiction today, could be tomorrow's headline news.« less