Against the serene backdrop of Ashley Pond in Los Alamos is a marker dedicated to writer Peggy Pond Church, a two-sided marker shared with Marjorie Bell Chambers. Church’s dedication reads: “Peggy Pond Church, author of the Southwest classic The House at Otowi Bridge and daughter of Los Alamos Ranch School founder Ashley Pond, will forever be ‘The First Lady of New Mexican Poetry.’ As she rode the Pajarito Plateau and camped beneath tall pines, she came to understand that ‘it is the land that wants to be said.’ She captured it in her sensitive poems.”