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Rachel Carson

Rachel Carson at Woods Hole, MA, 1950. (Courtesy of the Linda Lear Center for Special Collections & Archives, Connecticut College) 

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Rachel Carson in Silver Spring

Maryland
by
Patrick Kiger

Rachel Carson, whose 1962 expose Silent Spring helped launch the modern environmental movement, was a longtime resident of Silver Spring.

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