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Happy Belated Birthday to Rachel Carson

By jjacquet on June 7, 2007.

image.jpgOn May 27th, Rachel Carson would have turned 100 years of age. Instead, the world lost this gifted woman and writer at just 56--but not before she kickstarted the environmental movement with Silent Spring (see newly posted booklists) and wrote her ode to the oceans, The Sea Around Us (for which the project founded by Dr. Daniel Pauly was named). A quirky tribute was paid to her (and Elvis) by Alan Fargo at the Orlando Sentinel.

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