BRYANT WIENEKE

15. Back in Silver Spring, Rachel’s doctor confirmed what she had suspected – the pain in her back and legs was due to the cancer’s...

14. Rachel Carson testified to the Senate Committee in early June 1963. Marie and Paul accompanied her and Roger to D.C., and they spent...

13. On April 3, 1963, CBS Reports: “The Silent Spring of Rachel Carson” aired on national TV. Rachel was very nervous. She felt as if her...

12. Rachel returned to Silver Spring, and then suddenly, without warning, she experienced excruciating back pain, which her doctors...

11. Houghton Mifflin held a party in New York for Rachel in New York two days before publication day in late September 1962. Afterward,...

10. As she neared the completion of the book, Rachel Carson read and reread it, looking at it critically and imagining the challenges...

9. While most pesticide scares never reached the national media, a very public one occurred in 1959. On November 9 the US. Secretary of...

8. Sadly, Rachel’s family situation changed in November 1958, when Maria suffered a stroke. She died a few days later from pneumonia....

7. During the day in the Silver Spring house, Rachel rattled around, immersed in her review of the material, with more coming in all the...

6. Rachel and Dorothy continued their review. Along with a list of follow-up questions, Rachel put the files in new boxes labeled...