The Cultural Center at the Opera House

Opera House and Virtual Tickets are available! FREE but registration, for both in-person and virtual tickets, required Rachel Carson ignited the modern environmental movement after a challenging childhood in Pennsylvania during the Great Depression, followed by her graduate study at Johns Hopkins University. Her three books about the sea, including Silent Spring, catapulted this shy scientist into the limelight where chemical industries attacked her findings of DDT and President Kennedy’s committee validated her findings. This performance highlights Carson’s research, personal…