"Silent Spring at 60" with author Linda Lear

The NCTC Conservation Lecture Series will host "Silent Spring at 60" with author Linda Lear (December 8, 1:00 – 2:00 pm ET) online at: https://livestream.com/nctc.  Tune-in online from the NCTC Studio where Dr. Mark Madison will host an interview with author Linda Lear to discuss Silent Spring at 60 and recall Rachel Carson’s 16 year career with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, published in 1962, did more than any other single publication to alert the world to the hazards of environmental contaminants and to inspire a powerful environmental movement that would alter the course of American history.

Linda Lear is the author of the acclaimed biography, Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature (1997). She is also the editor of Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson (1998) - a collection of Carson’s writings over the course of her life. Linda Lear is the author of numerous academic and popular articles on Carson, as well as the author of introductions to the 40th and 50th anniversary editions of Silent Spring. (2002, 2012).

Lear's biography of Carson was awarded the prize for the best book on women in science by the History of Science Society in 1999. Chatham University (Carson’s alma mater) conferred an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters on Linda in 2008 for her research and writing on women in the environment. Lear’s research papers and adjunct collections dealing with Carson’s life, Carson’s friends and colleagues, and the controversy over Silent Spring form the core of the Lear/Carson Collection at The Linda Lear Center for Archives and Special Collections at Connecticut College in New London, CT. Lear is also the biographer of the English author, artist and naturalist Beatrix Potter. Her prize-winning book, Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature (2007) was published in the UK as Beatrix Potter: The Extraordinary Life of a Victorian Genius. (2008)