"The Legacy of an Early Environmentalist" by Rick Zimmerman
A woman whom many consider to be a founder of America’s environmental movement, and an advocate for sustainability, Rachel Carson began as a precocious 8-year-old Pennsylvania farm girl, writing...
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Being away from my wife, two children and four grandchildren while serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Sheki, Azerbaijan, was difficult physically, taxing mentally and an emotionally lonely...
View Article"In the Garden & at the Table (for Rachel Carson)" by Cheryl Parry
Rachel Louise Carson was born on May 27, 1907 in Springdale, Pennsylvania – in the lower Allegheny Valley, where her mother took her on excursions into the countryside. As a young girl, she explored...
View Article"Adfreeze Project" by Oona Stern and Cheryl E. Leonard
While writing about nature, Rachel Carson drew from a literature background as well as a scientific one, merging prose with science to form evocative and poetic portraits of the environment. This...
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