Theatre in the Round - Trailblazing Women - March 2024
Rachel Carson (1907-1964) was born in Silver Spring, Maryland. Starting with English, but switching to biology. She studied at Pennsylvania College. She continued with zoological studies at Johns Hopkins, but was forced to leave to support her family during the Great Depression. She took a position with the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries, writing scripts for a weekly educational radio broadcast, Romance Under the Waters. Carson wrote many books, but her best known book, Silent Spring, is considered a springboard of the environmental movement. Silent Spring documented the harm that pesticides caused, alluding that someday all the birds and bugs would be dead, leading to a silent spring. This led to a public outcry in DDT, which allowed many species of endangered birds to rebound. Creating controversy with the chemical companies, she was personally attacked to discredit her. I wish I could bring her back to life, with her writing skill, I would love to see the hell she could raise on the internet.
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