The Local Voice in "Silent Spring"
An article in the Boston Globe explains how Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" was inspired by a letter from a friend, Duxbury resident Olga Owens Huckins.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2012/05/24/duxbury_celebrates_local_nature_lovers_voice_in_rachel_carsons_silent_spring/
Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” is the book that gave birth to American environmentalism 50 years ago.
It’s the book that raised the first red flag over the unregulated use of chemical pesticides that killed birds and other creatures, poisoned water, and worked their way up the food chain to human consumption...
...And it’s the book that Carson said was inspired by a letter from Duxbury resident Olga Owens Huckins.
“Olga Owens Huckins told me of her own bitter experience of a small world made lifeless,” Carson wrote in her acknowledgments for “Silent Spring,’’ “and now brought my attention sharply back to a problem with which I had long been concerned. I then realized I must write this book.”
