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Article: Rachel Carson's private battles
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- March 6, 1995
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright 1995 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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SOUTHPORT, Maine -- The modest gray shingle cottage overlooking
Sheepscot Bay gives no hint of its famous former owner. Rachel
Carson, founding mother of the American environmental movement, liked
it that way. Anonymity allowed her to explore a tide pool without
being disturbed, or to chat with friends at Pinkham's general store
down the road.
When Carson died in 1964, just 19 months after publication of
"Silent Spring," her masterful attack on the killing effects of DDT
and other pesticides, she left few details about her personal life
for posterity. In fact, Carson downplayed or concealed even from her
friends the hardships in her life, including the "catalog of
illnesses" that sapped ...
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