(from Silent Spring) Rachel Carson received a letter from a friend in Massachusetts in the summer of 1957. Her friend wrote that an airplane hired by the state had flown back and forth over her ...

Then there’s the Homestead Challenge, an 18-mile trek starting near the Rachel Carson Homestead in Springdale, which drew another 300 people. The shortest hike is the 7-mile Friends and Family ...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/Rachel-carson-malaria-and-silent-spring/ In 1962, the publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring — which ...