The Children at Rest in 4-H Park
THE ALBUQUERQUE INDIAN SCHOOL has been a constant in Lester Brown’s life. In 1946, at the age of 4, Brown, originally from Ganado, Arizona, in the Navajo Nation, began attending it. His parents worked there, his father as an engineer and football coach, and his mother at the cafeteria and girl’s dormitory. The family lived in a house on school grounds, where the land seemed open, filled with apple orchards and vineyards that his father cared for. The school screened movies and held church services in the auditorium. By Brown’s account, it was a community pillar — but the pillar’s foundation was troubled.
“My mother knew some of those who were buried there,” Brown said on the
